Family Haliotidae Rafinesque 1815 (abalone)

Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Haliotidae

Parent taxon: Haliotoidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2017

See also Beesley 1998, Bouchet et al. 2005, Jeffery 2003, Knight et al. 1960, Kosnik 2002 and Lozouet et al. 2001

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Haliotis

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Angola (1 collection), Australia (4), China (1), France (1), Greece (1), Guam (3), Italy (2), Japan (4), Mexico (21), Morocco (2), Portugal (7), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (1), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Tonga (1), United States (25: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (2)

• Pliocene of Australia (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), South Africa (2), Spain (3), United States (3: California)

• Miocene of Algeria (10), Australia (1), Austria (2), Cyprus (2), France (1), Guam (1), Hungary (1), Italy (3), Malta (1), Moldova (4), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (3: California)

• Cretaceous of United States (2: California)

Total: 133 collections including 158 occurrences

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