Haliotis spadicea Donovan 1808

Haliotis spadicea Donovan, 1808 Haliotis spadicea Donovan, 1808: pl. 6. Kensley, 1973: 26, fig. 25. Kaicher, 1981: card 2875, syntype of sanguinea Hanley, 1840. Richards, 1981: 32, pl. 6, fig. 29. Abbott & Dance, 1982: 21. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 35, pl. 5, fig. 4. Jacks, 1983: 3, fig. 2. Muller, 1984. Muller, 1986: 71 (discussion of authorship), fig. 4. Wells & Kilburn, 1986: 455. Cortie, 1998: 8, figs H 3, H 4. Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 8, fig. 1. Geiger, 2000: 63, 72, figs 14, 151–153. Geiger & Poppe, 2000: 84, pl. 14. Branch et al., 2010: 164, fig. 71.1. Marais, 2011: 28. Geiger & Owen, 2012: 126, pl. 62. Type loc.: not given; location of type material not known. ? Haliotis sinuata Perry, 1811: pl. 52, fig. 2. Geiger, 1998: 100. Type loc.: not given; location of type material not known. Haliotis sanguinea Hanley, 1840: 60, frontispiece fig. 5. Krauss, 1848: 94. Martens, 1874: 128, no. 94. Pilsbry, 1890: 114, pl. 18, fig. 6. G.B. Sowerby (III), 1892: 46. Macpherson, 1953: 169, pl. 1 (W. Australia). Kennelly, 1964: 51, pl. 2, fig. 6. Type loc.: not given; one syntype in NHM (NHMUK 1912.6.18.31), illustrated by Kaicher (1981: card 2875). Haliotis ficiformis Menke, 1844: 98. Type loc.: ‘ ad promontorium bonae spei ’ [Cape of Good Hope]; type material probably lost. ? Haliotis pertusa (non Reeve, 1846)— Bartsch, 1915: 175. Turton, 1932: 203, no. 1409. Kennelly, 1964: 52. ? Haliotis nebulata (non Reeve, 1846)— Turton, 1932: 203, no. 1410. Haliotis sanguineum — Barnard, 1963 a: 304. Day, 1969: 152. Distribution. Central KwaZulu-Natal (Tongaat) to Table Bay; living LST and shallow, near-shore reefs. A record from Western Australia (Macpherson 1953; Wells & Kilburn 1986) was rejected by Geiger (2000).Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), pp. 1-98 in Zootaxa 4049 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24536