Biology:Melo umbilicatus
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Melo umbilicatus | |
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| A live animal of what is probably Melo umbilicatus crawling on the substrate at low tide | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/8/Shell_1108.shtml.
Wikidata ☰ Q6782896 entry
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