{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Scaphella benthalis.jpg | image_caption = Shell of ''Arctomelon benthale'' | taxon = Arctomelon | authority = Dall, 1915 |type_species= ''Voluta stearnsii'' <small>Dall, 1872</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Boromelon'' <small>Dall, 1942</small> * ''Fulgoraria (Arctomelon)'' <small>Dall, 1915</small> (original rank) * ''Fulgoraria (Boreomelon)'' <small>Dall, 1918</small> junior objective synonym }}

'''''Arctomelon''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|382314|''Arctomelon'' Dall, 1915||29 July 2012}}</ref> These are Large, deep-water Volute snails found in cold North Pacific waters

==Species== Species within the genus ''Arctomelon'' include: * ''Arctomelon benthale'' <small>(Dall, 1896)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|384680|''Arctomelon benthalis''(Dall, 1896)||25 April 2010}}</ref> * ''Arctomelon boreale'' <small>Roger N. Clark, 2018</small> * † ''Arctomelon harasewychi'' <small>Oleinik, 1996</small> * † ''Arctomelon lautenschlageri'' <small>(Volobueva, 1981)</small> * † ''Arctomelon rateginense'' <small>Oleinik, 1996</small> * ''Arctomelon ryosukei'' <small>(Habe & Ito, 1965)</small> * ''Arctomelon stearnsii'' <small>(Dall, 1872)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|384681|''Arctomelon stearnsii'' (Dall, 1872)||25 April 2010}}</ref> * ''Arctomelon tamikoae'' <small>(Kosuge, 1970)</small><ref>{{WRMS species|384684|''Arctomelon tamikoae'' (Kosuge, 1970)||25 April 2010}}</ref> ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Arctomelon paucicostatus'' [sic] : synonym of ''Boreotrophon paucicostatus'' <small>Habe & Ito, 1965</small>: synonym of ''Boreotrophon candelabrum'' <small>(Reeve, 1848)</small>

==References== {{Reflist}} * 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== * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7827114 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] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3332189 Dall, W. H. (1918). Changes in and additions to molluscan nomenclature. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 31: 137-138]

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Category:Arctomelon Category:Gastropod genera Category:Volutidae Category:Taxa named by William Healey Dall

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