Melo aethiopicus

Melo aethiopicus, common name the crowned baler, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Melo aethiopicus
Apertural view of shell
23 cm length shell, from the Indian Ocean
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Melo
Species:
M. aethiopicus
Binomial name
Melo aethiopicus
Synonyms[1]
  • Cymbium aethiopicum (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Melo aethiopica (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Voluta aethiopicum Linnaeus, 1758

Distribution

"Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia."[2]

A shell of Melo aethiopica

References
  1. Bail, P. (2009). "World Register of Marine Species". Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  2. Harald Doute, 1989-La Conchiglia, Year XXI, No. 246-249, pages 12-13.
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