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.

Melo umbilicatus
A live animal of what is probably Melo umbilicatus crawling on the substrate at low tide
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Melo
Species:	M. umbilicatus
Binomial name
Melo umbilicatus (Broderip in Sowerby I, 1826)