Arctomelon

Arctomelon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.[1]

Arctomelon
Shell of Arctomelon benthale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Volutidae
Subfamily:
Cymbiinae
Genus:
Arctomelon

Dall, 1915
Synonyms[1]

Boromelon Dall, 1942

Species

Species within the genus Arctomelon include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Arctomelon paucicostatus [sic] : synonym of Boreotrophon paucicostatus Habe & Ito, 1965: synonym of Boreotrophon candelabrum (Reeve, 1848)

References
  1. Arctomelon Dall, 1915. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 July 2012.
  2. Arctomelon benthalis(Dall, 1896). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  3. Arctomelon stearnsii (Dall, 1872). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  4. Arctomelon tamikoae (Kosuge, 1970). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Oldroyd, I.S. 1927. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Vol. II, Part 1. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, California. 297 pp. + 29plts
  • Habe, T. & K. Ito. 1965. Shells of the world in colour, Vol. I. Northern Pacific. 176 pp., 56 pls. Holkusha, Osaka, Japan
  • Abbott, R.T. 1968. Seashells of North America. Golden Press, New York City. 280 pp
  • Tiba, R. & S. Kosuge. 1980, North Pacific Shells (2) Genus Arctomelon Dall. Occasional publications of the Institute of Malacology of Tokyo. 8 pp
  • Matsukuma, A., Okutani, T. & T. Habe, 1991. World Shells of Rarity and Beauty, Revised and Enlarged Ed. National Science Museum, Tokyo. 206 pp.
  • Higo, S., Callomon, P., & Y. Gotō. 2001, Catalogue and Bibliography of Marine ShellBearing Mollusca of Japan Type Figures. Elle Scientific Publications, Osaka-fu, Japan
  • Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl.
  • Roger N. Clark, The genus Arctomelon Dall, 1915 in Alaskan waters, with the description of a new species; The Festivus vol. 50 (4), November 2018


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