Critically Endangered
Haliotis corrugata
Haliotis corrugata
Haliotis corrugata is a gastropod in the family Haliotidae (order Lepetellida), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The shell is thick and characterized by strong corrugations and is more circular than other American abalone. The two to four open respiratory apertures have edges that are strongly elevated above the surface of the shell. The head and epipodial tentacles are black, but the epipodial fringes are a mottled black and white, with many tubercles on the surface and a lacy edge.
Range and habitat
Pink abalone can be found along the Pacific coast of North America from Point Conception, California to Bahia de Santa Maria, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Pink abalone have separate sexes and broadcast spawn from March to November.
In crisis
Pink abalone are threatened by historic overharvesting, illegal harvest, withering abalone syndrome disease, and climate change. In 1996, the California Department of Fish and Game closed the commercial and recreational abalone fisheries in California, but populations continued to decline. California has a Abalone Recovery Management Plan to guide conservation efforts.
Haliotis corrugata is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Haliotis corrugata, Wikidata item Q3096257. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
