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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