Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Order Lepetellida > Superfamily Haliotoidea

Haliotidae Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Haliotinae*	Rafinesque, 1815	synonym

Children

Haliotis Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: orella de mar

Danish: abalone; øresnegl

Dutch: zee-oren sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: abalones; ear shells; ormers sources: MASDEA (1997).;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Finnish: merikorvat

French: oreille de mer

Galician: orella de mar

German: Seeohre

Italian: abaloni

Japanese: ミミガイ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Portuguese: abalone

Literature

basis of record	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
additional source	Geiger, D.L. (1999). Distribution and biogeography of the recent Haliotidae (Gastropoda : Vetigastropoda) World-wide, Bollettino Malacologico, Roma, 35(5-12) - Società Italiana di Malacologica.
additional source	Geiger D.L. & Owen B. (2012). Abalone: Worldwide Haliotidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. viii + 361 pp. [29 February 2012].
additional source	Geiger D.L. (1998). Recent genera and species of the family Haliotidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). The Nautilus 111(3): 85-116
additional source	Geiger D.L. & Poppe G.T. (2000). Haliotidae. in: Conchological Iconography (G.T. Poppe & K. Groh, eds.).. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 135 pp., 83 pls.:
additional source	Peters, H.; Ralph, G. M.; Rogers-Bennett, L. (2024). Abalones at risk: A global Red List assessment of Haliotis in a changing climate. PLOS ONE. 19(12): e0309384.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Haliotidae Rafinesque, 1815. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1727