Arctomelon Explained

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