MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Defrancia scalaris Møller, 1842) Möller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4: 76-97 [Copenhagen]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details]
original description
(of Bela americana A. S. Packard, 1867) Packard A.S. (1867). Observations on the glacial phenomena of Labrador and Maine with a view of the recent invertebrate fauna of Labrador. <em>Memoirs of the Boston Society for Natural History.</em> 1: 210-303, 2 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7494459 [details]
original description
(of Bela scalaris var. abyssicola Friele, 1886) Friele H. (1886). Zoology, Mollusca II. <i> Den Norske Nordhavs-expedition, 1876-1878</i>, 3(16): 1-44, pl. 7-12, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7325215 [details]
original description
(of Bela scalaris var. ecarinata G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): 229, pl. 16, fig. 9 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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]
From other sources
Distribution Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), lower North Shore; southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley) [details]
Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]