[2] Halitosis quekketi was first formally described in 1910 as Haliotis (Padollus) queketti by the English malacologist Edgar Albert Smith with the type locality given as Isezela in Natal.

[4] The specific name honours the conchologist John Frederick Whitlie Quekett, curator of the Durban Museum of Natural History, who sent Smith the type of this species.

The upper surface exhibits numerous spiral lirae, minutely squamose through the close elevated lines of growth.

The color of the shell is brownish-white with radiating blood-red streaks, narrow at the suture and gradually widening outwards.

[1] Haliotis queketti Is a rare species with little known about its biology, population and trends, the IUCN have, therefore, classed it as Data deficient.