Haliotis jacnensis


Haliotis jacnensis, common name Jacna abalone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone.

Description

The shell size varies between 7 mm and 25 mm. The oblong-ovate shell is spirally peculiarly rudely ridged. The ridges are very irregular and rather scaly, somewhat smooth next the perforations which are slightly tubiferous and distant. The coloration is reddish-orange. The interior surface is silvery. This is a very characteristic species, to which there is little or no approximation in any other.

Subspecies

Haliotis jacnensis jacnensis Reeve, 1846Haliotis jacnensis kershawi Owen, 2012

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Western Pacific Ocean.