''Arctomelon'' is a

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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 This family of sea s ...

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'' 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 {{Volutidae-stub