Large 9" Crowned Melo Diadema Bailer SEASHELL from Indo-Pacific Philippines Area

Description

Melo Melo Diadema or sometimes called Bailer shells are found across the Indo-Pacific region. These are off-shore shells often found on sandy bottom sea floor.  Early seafarers often used the Melon shells to bail water from their boats. Shells are melon color.
It is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. It’s known to be carnivorous, as laboratory experiments have shown. It is a specialized predator of other continental shelf predatory gastropods.
Crowned Pacific Melo Melon Diadema Sea Shell
Has a nice Crown of Thorns on top
Color: Creamy melon or variegated tan with pale orange tint
From the Pacific area Philippines
Measures 9 in long x 6 in wide
Condition - it has some slight variation in color, pattern and minor imperfections because it is a natural shell
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