Crowned baler, Melo aethiopicus (Ethiopian volute, Voluta aethiopica).

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Crowned baler, Melo aethiopicus (Ethiopian volute, Voluta aethiopica). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1801.

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