Haliotis jacnensis

Haliotis jacnensis, common name Jacna abalone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalone.^[3]

Haliotis jacnensis
Haliotis jacnensis
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Lepetellida
Family:	Haliotidae
Genus:	Haliotis
Species:	H. jacnensis
Binomial name
Haliotis jacnensis Reeve, 1846 [2]
Synonyms[3]
Haliotis echinata G. B. Sowerby II, 1882 Haliotis hanleyi Ancey, 1881

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.^[4]

view of the shell from below

Subspecies

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

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Western Pacific Ocean.^[1]