Haliotis spadicea Donovan, 1808: pl. 6. Kensley, 1973: 26, fig. 25. Kaicher, 1981: card 2875, syntype of sanguinea Hanley, 1840. Richards, 1981: 32, pl. 6, fig. 29. Abbott & Dance, 1982: 21. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 35, pl. 5, fig. 4. Jacks, 1983: 3, fig. 2. Muller, 1984. Muller, 1986: 71 (discussion of authorship), fig. 4. Wells & Kilburn, 1986: 455. Cortie, 1998: 8, figs H 3, H 4. Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 8, fig. 1. Geiger, 2000: 63, 72, figs 14, 151–153. Geiger & Poppe, 2000: 84, pl. 14. Branch et al., 2010: 164, fig. 71.1. Marais, 2011: 28. Geiger & Owen, 2012: 126, pl. 62. Type loc.: not given; location of type material not known.
? Haliotis sinuata Perry, 1811: pl. 52, fig. 2. Geiger, 1998: 100. Type loc.: not given; location of type material not known.
Haliotis sanguinea Hanley, 1840: 60, frontispiece fig. 5. Krauss, 1848: 94. Martens, 1874: 128, no. 94. Pilsbry, 1890: 114, pl. 18, fig. 6. G.B. Sowerby (III), 1892: 46. Macpherson, 1953: 169, pl. 1 (W. Australia). Kennelly, 1964: 51, pl. 2, fig. 6. Type loc.: not given; one syntype in NHM (NHMUK 1912.6.18.31), illustrated by Kaicher (1981: card 2875).
Haliotis ficiformis Menke, 1844: 98. Type loc.: ‘ ad promontorium bonae spei ’ [Cape of Good Hope]; type material probably lost.
? Haliotis pertusa (non Reeve, 1846)— Bartsch, 1915: 175. Turton, 1932: 203, no. 1409. Kennelly, 1964: 52.
? Haliotis nebulata (non Reeve, 1846)— Turton, 1932: 203, no. 1410.
Haliotis sanguineum — Barnard, 1963 a: 304. Day, 1969: 152.
Distribution. Central KwaZulu-Natal (Tongaat) to Table Bay; living LST and shallow, near-shore reefs. A record from Western Australia (Macpherson 1953; Wells & Kilburn 1986) was rejected by Geiger (2000).