- Melo umbilicatus
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Melo umbilicatus 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 NeogastropodaSuperfamily: 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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