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Definition of Family Haliotidae
1. Noun. Abalones.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Class Gasteropoda, Class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda
Member holonyms: Genus Haliotis, Haliotis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Haliotidae
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. ..."