Arctomelon

Arctomelon
Shell of Arctomelon benthale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Cymbiinae
Genus:	Arctomelon Dall, 1915
Type species
Voluta stearnsiiDall, 1872
Synonyms [1]
BoromelonDall, 1942 Fulgoraria (Arctomelon)Dall, 1915 (original rank) Fulgoraria (Boreomelon)Dall, 1918 junior objective synonym

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

These are Large, deep-water Volute snails found in cold North Pacific waters

Species

Species within the genus Arctomelon include:

• Arctomelon benthale (Dall, 1896) ^[2]
• Arctomelon boreale Roger N. Clark, 2018
• † Arctomelon harasewychi Oleinik, 1996
• † Arctomelon lautenschlageri (Volobueva, 1981)
• † Arctomelon rateginense Oleinik, 1996
• Arctomelon ryosukei (Habe & Ito, 1965)
• Arctomelon stearnsii (Dall, 1872) ^[3]
• Arctomelon tamikoae (Kosuge, 1970) ^[4]

Species brought into synonymy

• Arctomelon paucicostatus [sic] : synonym of Boreotrophon paucicostatusHabe & 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

External links

• Dall, W. H. (1915). A monograph of the molluscan fauna of the Orthaulax pugnax Zone of the Oligocene of Tampa, Florida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 90: 1-173, 26 pls
• Dall, W. H. (1918). Changes in and additions to molluscan nomenclature. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 31: 137-138