WoRMS taxon details
Arctomelon Dall, 1915
AphiaID: 382314
AphiaID: 382314
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Volutidae (Family) > Cymbiinae (Subfamily) > Adelomelonini (Tribe) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Voluta stearnsii Dall, 1872 (type by original designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Adelomelonini Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Boreomelon Dall, 1918 (objective synonym of Arctomelon) | ||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Bail P. & Poppe G.T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl. (updated October 2008 for WoRMS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Arctomelon benthalis (Dall, 1896) Species Arctomelon stearnsii (Dall, 1872) Species Arctomelon tamikoae (Kosuge, 1970) Species Arctomelon paucicostatus [sic] accepted as Boreotrophon paucicostatus Habe & Ito, 1965 accepted as Boreotrophon candelabrum (Reeve, 1848) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | North Pacific [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Shells are dull and ovate-fusiform with a blunt spire. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382314 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Bail, P. (2013). Arctomelon Dall, 1915. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382314 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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