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
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Haliotidae
Genus: Haliotis
Species:
H. jacnensis
Binomial name
Haliotis jacnensis
Reeve, 1846 [2]
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Description

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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

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

Distribution

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This species is distributed in the western Pacific Ocean, around the coasts of American Samoa, Fiji, Guam, Indonesia, Japan, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Niue, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. It resides at depths between 0 metres (0 ft) and 50 metres (160 ft).[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Peters, H. (2021). "Haliotis jacnensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021 e.T78769011A78772488. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T78769011A78772488.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Reeve, Conch.Icon., t. 17, f. 73
  3. ^ a b Haliotis jacnensis Reeve, 1846. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 April 2010.
  4. ^ H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
  • Geiger D.L. & Poppe G.T. (2000). A Conchological Iconography: The family Haliotidae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. 135pp 83pls.
  • Geiger D.L. & Owen B. (2012) Abalone: Worldwide Haliotidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. viii + 361 pp. [29 February 2012] page(s): 53
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