Haliotis speciosa | |
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Haliotis speciosa | |
Scientific classification (disputed) | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Family: | Haliotidae |
Genus: | Haliotis |
Species: | H. speciosa
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Binomial name | |
Haliotis speciosa Reeve, 1846
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Haliotis speciosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.[1][2]
Haliotis speciosa has also been considered to be a synonym of Haliotis alfredensis Bartsch, 1915 and vice versa.
The size of the shell varies between 50 mm and 80 mm. "The oblong-ovate shell is flatly convex, depressed in the middle, spirally elevately striated. The striae are close-set. The six perforations are open. Its color pattern is scarlet red, beautifully variegated with black-edged white. This is a very pretty species, the color being a rich scarlet red, variegated with broad zigzag flames, edged along the front with black."[3]
This marine species occurs from the East Cape to Northern Transkei, South Afrika.