Critically Endangered
Haliotis fulgens
Haliotis fulgens
Haliotis fulgens is a gastropod in the family Haliotidae (order Lepetellida), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The size of the adult shell of this species varies between 75 mm (3.0 in) and 255 mm (10.0 in). "The large, oval, quite convex shell is sculptured all over with equal rounded cords or lirae. Its coloration is reddish-brown.
Range and habitat
H. Fulgens is endemic to the waters off the coast of southern California, from Point Conception, California, to Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico. This species is found in shallow water on open/exposed coast from low intertidal to at least 30 feet (9 m) and perhaps as deep as 60 feet (18 m). Individuals are found in rock crevices, under rocks and other cryptic cavities.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
Green abalone have separate sexes and broadcast spawn from early summer through early fall.
In crisis
Green abalone are threatened by overharvesting and the withering abalone syndrome disease. California has a Abalone Recovery Management Plan to guide conservation efforts. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service has some concerns regarding status and threats, but for that insufficient information is available to indicate a need to list the species under the U.S.
Haliotis fulgens 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 fulgens, Wikidata item Q3138909. 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.
