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  Atlantic and Mediterranean
Southern Africa
Australia & New Zealand
Indian Ocean
Indonesia & tropical W. Pacific
Central Pacific
Northwest Pacific
Eastern Pacific
 
 Atlantic and Mediterranean
   
aurantium
Simone, 1998
Brasil
mykonosensis
Owen, Hanavan & Hall, 2001
Mediterranean
pustulata
Reeve, 1846
W. Indian-E. Mediterranean
stomatiaeformis
Reeve, 1846
Canale di Sicilia
tuberculata
Linnaeus, 1758
W. Europa to NW. Africa
tuberculata f. lamellosa
Lamarck, 1822
Mediterranean
 
tuberculata coccinea
Reeve, 1846
Azores, Canaries, Cabo Verde
tuberculata marmorata
Linnaeus, 1758
W. Africa
 
   
 
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  Southern Africa
   
alfredensis
Bartsch, 1915
S. Africa
midae
Linnaeus, 1758
S. Africa
parva
Donovan, 1808
S. Africa
pustulata
Reeve, 1846
SW. Indian-E. Mediterranean
queketti
E.A. Smith, 1910
S. Africa
spadicea
Donovan, 1808
S. Africa
   
 
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 Australia & New Zealand
     
asinina
Linnaeus, 1758
Indonesia to W. Pacific
australis
Gmelin, 1791
New Zealand
brazieri
Angas, 1869
Australia
clathrata
Reeve, 1846
Indo-W. Pacific
coccoradiata
Reeve, 1846
Australia
cyclobates
Péron, 1816
Australia
dissona
(Iredale, 1929)
Queensland, Tropical W. Pacific
diversicolor
Reeve, 1846
Japan to Australia, to Thailand
diversicolor squamata
Reeve, 1846
Indonesia to Australia
elegans
Philippi, 1874
Australia
iris
Gmelin, 1791
New Zealand
laevigata
Donovan, 1808
Australia
ovina
Gmelin, 1791
Tropical Indo-Pacific
planata
Sowerby II, 1882
Malaysia to tropical W. Pacific
roei
J.E. Gray, 1826
Australia
rubiginosa
Reeve, 1846
Australia to Tonga, Lord Howe
rubra
Leach, 1814
Australia
rubra conicopora
Péron, 1816
Australia
scalaris
(Leach, 1814)
Australia
scalaris emmae
Reeve, 1846
Australia
semiplicata
Menke, 1843
Australia
varia
Linnaeus, 1758
E. Indo to W. Pacific
virginea
Gmelin, 1791
New Zealand
virginea morioria
Powell, 1938
Chatham
   
 
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 Indian Ocean
   
asinina
Linnaeus, 1758
Indonesia to W. Pacific
clathrata
Reeve, 1846
Indo-W. Pacific
diversicolor
Reeve, 1846
Japan to Australia, to Thailand
diversicolor squamata
Reeve, 1846
Indonesia to Australia
mariae
Wood, 1828
Yemen to Oman
ovina
Gmelin, 1791
Tropical Indo-Pacific
ovina patamakanthini
Dekker, Regter & Gras, 2001
Thailand
planata
Sowerby II, 1882
Malaysia to tropical W. Pacific
pustulata
Reeve, 1846
W. Indian-E. Mediterranean
rugosa
Lamarck, 1822
SW. Indian Ocean
squamosa
J.E. Gray, 1826
SW. Indian Ocean
thailandis
Dekker & Patamakanthin, 2001
Andaman Sea
unilateralis
Lamarck, 1822
Red Sea, East Africa
varia
Linnaeus, 1758
E. Indo to W. Pacific
volcanius
Patamakanthini & Eng, 2002
W. Java
   
 
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 Indonesia to tropical W. Pacific
     
asinina
Linnaeus, 1758
Indonesia to W. Pacific
clathrata
Reeve, 1846
Indo-W. Pacific
dissona
(Iredale, 1929)
Queensland, Tropical W. Pacific
diversicolor
Reeve, 1846
Japan to Australia, to Thailand
diversicolor squamata
Reeve, 1846
Indonesia to Australia
dohrniana
Dunker, 1863
Indonesia to W. Pacific, Japan
fatui
Geiger, 1999
Philippines to Tonga
glabra
Gmelin, 1791
Indonesia to Japan
jacnensis
Reeve, 1846
SW. Pacific
ovina
Gmelin, 1791
Tropical Indo-Pacific
planata
Sowerby II, 1882
Malaysia to tropical W. Pacific
tomricei
Patamakanthin, 2002
Indonesia to Philippines
 
varia
Linnaeus, 1758
E. Indo to W. Pacific
volcanius
Patamakanthini & Eng, 2002
W. Java
 
   
 
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 Central Pacific
     
ovina
Gmelin, 1791
Tropical Indo-Pacific
pulcherrima
Gmelin, 1791
Central Pacific
rubiginosa
Reeve, 1846
Australia to Tonga, Lord Howe
   
 
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 Northwest Pacific
     
discus
Reeve, 1846
Japan
diversicolor
Reeve, 1846
Japan to Australia, to Thailand
dohrniana
Dunker, 1863
Indonesia to W. Pacific, Japan
gigantea
Gmelin, 1791
Japan
glabra
Gmelin, 1791
Indonesia to Japan
madaka
(Habe, 1977)
Japan
ovina
Gmelin, 1791
Tropical Indo-Pacific
planata
Sowerby II, 1882
Malaysia to tropical W. Pacific
supertexta
Lischke, 1870
Korea, Japan
   
varia
Linnaeus, 1758
E. Indo to W. Pacific
   
   
 
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 Eastern Pacific
     
corrugata
Wood, 1828
California to W. Baja California
cracherodii
Leach, 1814
California to W. Baja California
dalli
Henderson, 1915
Galapagos, W. Colombia
fulgens
Philippi, 1845
California to W. Baja California
kamtschatkana
Jonas, 1845
Alaska to California
kamtschatkana assimilis
Dall, 1878
California to W. Baja California
roberti
McLean, 1970
Cocos, Costa Rica
rufescens
Swainson, 1822
Oregon to W. Baja California
sorenseni
Bartsch, 1940
California to W. Baja California
     
   
walallensis
Stearns, 1899
S. Washington to California
   
     
 
 

References:


D.L. Geiger: Distribution & Biogeography of the recent Haliotidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda)
World-wide Bollettino malacologico XXXV 1999
Società Italiana di Malacologia 2000

D.L. Geiger & G. Poppe: The family Haliotidae
A Conchological Iconography
ConchBooks 2000
 
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