Melo aethiopica
| Melo aethiopica | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Melo aethiopica | |
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| A shell of Melo aethiopica, 23 cm in length, from the Indian Ocean | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Melo |
| Species: | M. aethiopica |
| Binomial name | |
| Melo aethiopica (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cymbium aethiopicum (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Melo aethiopica, common name the crowned baler, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
A shell of Melo aethiopica
References
- ↑ Bail, P. (2009). "World Register of Marine Species". Retrieved 17 March 2010.
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