Melo (gastropod)

Melo is a genus of extremely large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Species in this genus sometimes produce large pearls.

The large shell is subovate and ventricose.

The columella shows several oblique plaits, the anterior the largest.

The outer lip is simple, acute and obliquely truncate in front.

Video of a live individual of Melo amphora crawling at low tide
A live individual of what is probably Melo umbilicatus
A shell of Melo melo
A juvenile shell of what is probably Melo amphora