Definition of Family Haliotidae

1. Noun. Abalones.

Exact synonyms: Haliotidae
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Class Gasteropoda, Class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda
Member holonyms: Genus Haliotis, Haliotis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Haliotidae

family Goodeniaceae
family Gracilariidae
family Graminaceae
family Gramineae
family Grossulariaceae
family Gruidae
family Gryllidae
family Guttiferae
family Gyrinidae
family Hadrosauridae
family Haematopodidae
family Haemodoraceae
family Haemoproteidae
family Haemulidae
family Halictidae
family Haliotidae (current term)
family Haloragaceae
family Haloragidaceae
family Hamamelidaceae
family Helicidae
family Helodermatidae
family Helotiaceae
family Helvellaceae
family Hemerobiidae
family Hemerocallidaceae
family Hemiprocnidae
family Hemiramphidae
family Heteromyidae
family Hexagrammidae
family Hexanchidae

Literary usage of Family Haliotidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report on the Turton Collection of South African Marine Mollusks: With by Paul Bartsch (1915)
"... USNM, contains two additional specimens of the same species (Coll. No. 1032). Family HALIOTIDAE. Genus HALIOTIS Linnaeus. ..."

2. A Monograph of the Molluscan Fauna of the Orthaulax Pugnax Zone of the by William Healey Dall (1915)
"... thorn here simply on account of their shape. Cat, No. 2-197' contains two additional specimens of the same species (Coll. No. 1032). Family HALIOTIDAE. ..."

3. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"Lvel EAR-SHELLS belong to the genus Habeas and family Haliotidae of the mollusca. EARTH, Globe, World. Committee, Rangoon. Arad ARAB. Myay BURM. Terre, FB. ..."

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