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Haliotis rubra   Leach, 1814

Blacklip abalone

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Australia country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: endemic
Salinity: marine
Abundance: abundant (always seen in some numbers) | Ref: Prince, J.D., T.L. Sellers, W.B. Ford and S.R. Talbot, 1988
Importance: commercial | Ref: Beechey, Des, 2012
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from Blubber Head, Tasmania (Ref. 81758). Endemic to Australia, from Angourie, New South Wales to Fremantle, Western Australia, including Tasmania (Ref. 93239). C: Refs. 81758, 93239, 110679, 114106, 121898.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.csiro.au/
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Prince, J.D., T.L. Sellers, W.B. Ford and S.R. Talbot, 1988
National Database:

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Classification / Names / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

Gastropoda > Lepetellida () > Haliotidae (abalones)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic; depth range 0 - 50 m.   Temperate, preferred 15°C (Ref. 107945); 32°S - 43°S, 116°E - 153°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Indo-West Pacific: Endemic to Australia, from Fremantle, Western Australia to Angourie, New South Wales and south to Blubber Head, Tasmania.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 3 - 9 cm Max length : 20.0 cm SHW male/unsexed; (Ref. 93239)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Adults live on rocky surfaces, hidden in crevices, caves, fissures or vertical rock faces (Ref. 93239). Frequent in estuaries, in natural beds on a shingle and mud bank (Ref. 63218).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Broadcast spawners. Life cycle: Embryos develop into lecithotrophic larvae and later into juvenile veligers before becoming fully grown adults. Also Ref. 833.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

The Academy of Natural Sciences. 2006. (Ref. 3204)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Vulnerable (VU) (A2ac); Date assessed: 14 January 2021

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Aquaculture: production; Fisheries: landings | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Tools

E-book | Field guide

Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fisheries: ; publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 14.2 - 18.4, mean 16.4 (based on 84 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278) Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.29; tm=4.5).
Prior r = 0.57, 95% CL = 0.37 - 0.85, Based on 3 data-limited stock assessments.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Very high.