Melo aethiopicus
Species of gastropod
Melo aethiopicus | |
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Apertural view of shell | |
23 cm length shell, from the Indian Ocean | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Melo |
Species: | M. aethiopicus |
Binomial name | |
Melo aethiopicus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Melo aethiopicus, common name the crowned baler, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Distribution
"Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia."[2]
References
External links
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