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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 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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