Melo melo

Indian volute
A shell of the Indian volute, Melo melo
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Melo
Species:
M. melo
Binomial name
Melo melo
(Lightfoot, 1786)
Synonyms
  • Cymbium maculatum Röding, 1798
  • Cymbium melo (Lightfoot, 1786)
  • Melo melo melo (Lightfoot, 1786)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Voluta anguria Lightfoot, 1786
  • Melo indica (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Voluta anguria Lightfoot, 1786
  • Voluta citrina Fischer, 1807
  • Voluta indica Gmelin, 1791
  • Yetus indicus (Gmelin, 1791)

Melo melo, common name the Indian volute or bailer shell (also spelled baler), is a very large edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.