Summary ²

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

Local Name ³

(Tamil) : Akshaya Paathiram, Paathira Sangu

• பாத்திர சங்கு

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1. (c) Rohith Srinivasan, all rights reserved, uploaded by Rohith Srinivasan
2. Adapted by Nanditha Ram Satagopan from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melo_melo
3. (c) Nanditha Ram Satagopan, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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