Melo aethiopica

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Melo aethiopica
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) Voluta 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.

A shell of Melo aethiopica

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• "Melo aethiopicus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.