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Giant Baler Shell or Diadem Volute

Melo amphora

Photo by Christiane
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Field Notes

Notes:

This thing as big as a football.. maybe bigger!!!

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (13)

@ Noe and Pili .. Reefs here are beautiful ... but the best place I have seen is Vanuatu!
Cool, glad I could be of assistance :)
Elsa.. A diver from Exmouth, Western Australia just ID it.. and yes.. it is a Melo Genus...Thanks for your help!
Wow.. That's crazy. Check out Melo though - pretty certain it is a species in that genus. And judging by the size even more so..
@ Elsa.. It was huge.. like an oversize football..
It's of the Melo genus - not sure about species. Needs some googling.
But then on second thought the shape is too rounded to be coneshell..
Strange.. the flat front of the shell makes me think coneshell (incredibly venomous). How big was it?
Still no ID for the animal!! Maybe some divers are online!
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PublishedMay 30, 2011

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