Melo aethiopicus

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = Vinutice ethiopská.jpg

| image_caption = Apertural view of shell

| image2 = Melo aethiopica.jpg

| image2_caption = 23 cm length shell, from the Indian Ocean

| taxon = Melo aethiopicus

| authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=590808|title=World Register of Marine Species|last=Bail|first=P.|date=2009|accessdate=9 July 2023}}

| synonyms =

• Cymbium aethiopicum (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Melo aethiopica (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Voluta aethiopicum Linnaeus, 1758

}}

Melo aethiopicus, common name the crowned baler, is a very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Volutidae, the volutes.