MolluscaBase name details
original description
(of Modiola pectinula A. Gould, 1841) Gould, A. A. (1841). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida, and Radiata. Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge, xiii + 373 pp., 15 pls. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76081
page(s): 127, fig. 85. [details]
basis of record
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Malacolog - Western atlantic gastropod database., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details]
From other sources
Distribution Gulf of St . Lawrence (unspecified region), Saguenay Fjord, Northern Gaspe Waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [details]
Habitat bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]