{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Haliotis dalli | image = Haliotis dalli 001.jpg | image_caption = Original image of ''Haliotis dalli'' | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn">{{cite iucn |author=Peters, H.|date=2021 |title=''Haliotis dalli'' |volume=2021|article-number=e.T78764148A78772428|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T78764148A78772428.en}}</ref> | authority = Henderson J.B., 1915 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = ''Haliotis (Padollus) dalli'' <small>Henderson J.B., 1915</small> }}
'''''Haliotis dalli''''', common name the '''Galápagos abalone''', is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|445313|''Haliotis dalli'' Henderson, 1915||9 April 2010}}</ref>
It has been confused in the past with ''Haliotis pourtalesii'' <small>Dall, 1881</small>, that occurs off Florida. This was due to the destruction of the holotype of ''Haliotis pourtalesii'' in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
;Subspecies: * ''Haliotis dalli dalli'' <small>Henderson, 1915</small> * ''Haliotis dalli roberti'' <small>McLean, 1970</small> (synonym: ''Haliotis roberti'' <small>McLean, 1970</small>)
==Description== The description given by W.H. Dall in 1889 of ''Haliotis pourtalesii'' matches exactly the description used in 1915 by J.B. Henderson in describing ''Haliotis dalli'', with W.H. Dall agreeing.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7763974#page/769/mode/1up J.B. Henderson, Rediscovery of Pourtales' Haliotis, Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 48 1915 pp. 660–661]</ref>
"The small shell has a pale brick-red color, with white dots on some of the spirals. The shell is rather elevated, with about two and a half whorls. The apex is small and prominent. It contains about 25 holes of which five remain open. The margins of these are rather prominent. Outside the row of holes the usual sulcus is strongly marked. About midway from the suture to the lines of holes is a raised rib, rather obscure, but differing in different individuals and corresponding to an internal sulcus. Between the central ridges and the suture there are no undulations or transverse ridges of consequence. The sculpture consists of well marked, rather flattish, spiral, close-set threads, sometimes with a single finer intercalary thread, overlaid by smaller rather compressed transverse ridges, in harmony with the incremental lines. On top of the spirals the ridges bulge like the threads of worsted on canvas embroidery. The spire is situated well forward and with subvertical sides. The interior surface is pearly. The coil of the spire is rather close and the margin of the columella is flattened."<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualconch12tryorich H.A. Pilsbry (1890) Manual of Conchology XII; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890] (described as ''Haliotis pourtalesii'')</ref>
This species differs from most other ''Haliotis'' species by having a very narrow lateral tooth in the radula and having concentric rings on the cephalic tentacles. It shares these characteristics only with ''Haliotis roberti'' (which has become the subspecies ''Haliotis dalli roberti'', <small>(McLean, 1970)</small>) and ''Haliotis pourtalesii'' and the subspecies ''Haliotis pourtalesii aurantium'' (<small>Simone, 1998</small>)<ref>Geiger, D. L. 1998. ''Recent genera and species of the family Haliotidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda).'' The Nautilus 111: 85–116.</ref>
==Distribution== This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Galapagos Islands and Western Colombia.
==References== {{Reflist}} * Geiger D.L. & Owen B. (2012) ''Abalone: Worldwide Haliotidae''. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. viii + 361 pp.
==External links== * {{Gastropods.com|key=8|id=2318|title=''Haliotis (Padollus) dalli''|access-date=16 January 2019}}
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Category:Gastropods described in 1915 dalli