Melo aethiopicus

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Melo aethiopicus
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Apertural view of shell
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23 cm length shell, from the Indian Ocean
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Melo
Species:
M. aethiopicus
Binomial name
Melo aethiopicus
Synonyms [1]
  • Cymbium aethiopicum(Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Melo aethiopica(Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Voluta aethiopicumLinnaeus, 1758

Melo aethiopicus, common name the crowned baler, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

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Distribution

"Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia." [2]

A shell of Melo aethiopica Melo aethiopica 27 a.jpg
A shell of Melo aethiopica

References

  1. ↑ Bail, P. (2009). "World Register of Marine Species" . Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  2. ↑ Harald Doute, 1989-La Conchiglia, Year XXI, No. 246-249, pages 12-13.
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