Melo umbilicatus
Melo umbilicatus | |
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A live animal of what is probably Melo umbilicatus crawling on the substrate at low tide | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Melo |
Species: | M. umbilicatus |
Binomial name | |
Melo umbilicatus (Broderip in Sowerby I, 1826) | |
Melo umbilicatus, common name the heavy baler or umbilicate melon, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
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