Synonym: neglecta Philippi, 1848, who writes: « Shell ovate-oblong, slightly convex, spirally lyrate, white with red blotches; foramina 4-5 open; the section between the foramina and the margin is convex; spire minute, laterally placed. […] Spiral furrows circa 24-32 between spire and foramina, circa 7 between the latter and the margin; radial plicae obsolete, vanishing near the spire. » – R. A. Philippi: “Testaceorum novorum centuria”, Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie Jahrgang 5, Hannover 1848, p.16.

« Shell oblong-ovate, very convex, spirally striated, radiately finely plicated, spire nearly terminal, elevated; five perforations open; marbled with olive and green. » – L. A. Reeve: “Descriptions of forty New Species of Haliotis, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq”, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London vol. 14(3), London 1846, p.57. This epithet “stomatiaeformis” refers to the shape, close to those of some shells of the genus Stomatella Lamarck. The drawing in the Conchologia iconica, plate XVII fig.73 is more that of a haliotis jacnensis (same plate, fig.72). There must have been an interversion.