original description
(of Modiolaria vernicosa Middendorff, 1849) Middendorff A.T. von. (1849). Beiträge zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. III. Aufzählung und Beschreibung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehörigen Zweischaler. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, ser. 6, Sciences Naturelles.</em> 6: 517-608, pl. 12-21., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29015377
page(s): 536 [details]
original description
(of Vilasina pseudovernicosa Ivanova, 1981) Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. <em>Nauka, Leningrad.</em> 479 pp. In Russian.
page(s): 237, fig. 157 [details]
basis of record
Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality Sea of Okhotsk; Alaska, Kadiak and Ugak islands [details]