- Source: Arctomelon
Arctomelon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.
Species
Species within the genus Arctomelon include:
Arctomelon benthale (Dall, 1896)
Arctomelon borealis 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)
Arctomelon tamikoae (Kosuge, 1970)
Species brought into synonymy
Arctomelon paucicostatus [sic] : synonym of Boreotrophon paucicostatus Habe & Ito, 1965: synonym of Boreotrophon candelabrum (Reeve, 1848)
References
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