Melo umbilicatus

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 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.

References

• gastropods.com info

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