page_title: Melo (gastropod)
section_title: Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: Melo (gastropod) / Gallery
caption_attribution_description: English: Melo melo Indian Ocean (23 cm) Français&#160;: Melo melo - Océan indien (23 cm)
context_page_description: Melo is a genus of extremely large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes. Because of their huge ovate shells, these snails are often known as "bailers" or "melons".
  Species in this genus sometimes produce large pearls. The image in the taxobox shows a group of these pearls with a shell of the species Melo melo.
caption: A shell of Melo melo
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