''Arctomelon'' is a
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sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
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Volutidae
''Volutidae'', common name volutes, are a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails that range in size from 9 mm to over 500 mm. They are marine gastropod mollusks. Most of the species have no operculum.
Distribution
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.
Species
Species within the genus ''Arctomelon'' include:
* ''
Arctomelon benthale
''Arctomelon benthale'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae
''Volutidae'', common name volutes, are a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails that range in size from 9 mm to over 500 mm. They are ...
''
(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''
ic: 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
Volutidae
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