Melo aethiopica
Melo aethiopica | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Melo aethiopica | |
A shell of Melo aethiopica, 23 cm in length, from the Indian Ocean | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Melo |
Species: | M. aethiopica |
Binomial name | |
Melo aethiopica (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Cymbium aethiopicum (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Melo aethiopica, common name the crowned baler, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
References
- ↑ Bail, P. (2009). "World Register of Marine Species". Retrieved 17 March 2010.
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