Arctomelon is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.
These are Large, deep-water Volute snails found in cold North Pacific waters
Species Species within the genus Arctomelon include: Arctomelon benthale (Dall, 1896) 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) 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
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