Endangered
Pinto abalone
Haliotis kamtschatkana
Pinto abalone is a gastropod in the family Haliotidae (order Lepetellida) — Haliotis kamtschatkana, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The pinto abalone has an adult shell size of approximately 8 cm (3.1 in) but it can rarely grow as large as 15 cm (5.9 in). The rather thin shell is flattened and ear-shaped. The shell has 3 to 6 elevated respiratory holes.
Range and habitat
Pinto abalone are found in kelp beds and in rocky areas in the northeast Pacific Ocean, where they range from Salisbury Sound, Alaska, along the coasts of Canada and contiguous United States to Baja California, Mexico.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.
In crisis
It has been listed as endangered by the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species since 2006. Population size has declined due to overharvesting, illegal harvesting, predation by recovering sea otters, and disease. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), has some concerns regarding status and threats, but for that insufficient information has been available to indicate a need to list the species under the U.S.
This species is now endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, mainly due to uncontrolled harvesting and poaching of the species for food. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has listed it as an endangered species.
Pinto abalone is 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 Pinto abalone, Wikidata item Q3173932. 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.
