Melo umbilicatus
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Melo umbilicatus | |
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A live animal of what is probably Melo umbilicatus crawling on the substrate at low tide | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Volutidae |
Genus: | Melo |
Species: | M. umbilicatus
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Binomial name | |
Melo umbilicatus (Broderip in Sowerby I, 1826)
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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
- "Melo umbilicatus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.Error: "Q6782896" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.