Sixteen Haliotis gigantea (Gmelin, 1791) and nine Haliotis madaka (Habe, 1977) specimens were collected by fishermen in April 2014 and March 2015 in the area around Awaji Island, Seto Inland Sea, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
Chicken red blood cells (CRBC) (Nippon Bio-Test Laboratories Inc., Tokyo, Japan) and mantle cells of Haliotis discus hannai obtained from the hatchery of Kitanihon Fishery Co.
Also, for Haliotis tuberculata coccinea obtained optimal growth rates with a mixture of red seaweeds, and this study give more emphasis in protein and carbohydrate components for obtain optimal growth (Fermin & Mae-Buen, 2002; Vieira et al., 2005).
Baranski M, Rourke M, Loughnan S, Austin C, Robinson N (2006) Isolation and characterization of 125 microsatellite DNA markers in the blacklip abalone, Haliotis rubra.
No data of this kind currently exist for the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina (Linnaeus, 1758), the type species of the genus and the target of a growing aquaculture industry (Singhagraiwan and Doi, 1993; Capinpin et al., 1998; Gallardo and Salayo, 2003).
The pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana Jonas, 1845) is a prosobranch gastropod mollusc ranging from approximately Salisbury Sound (north of Sitka), Alaska, to Bahia Tortugas, Baja California, Mexico (Fig.