Melo umbilicatus
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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A live animal of what is probably Melo umbilicatus crawling on the substrate at low tide | |
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Species: | M. umbilicatus |
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Melo umbilicatus (Broderip in Sowerby I, 1826) | |
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