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THE ECONOMIC MOLLUSCA OF ACADIA. 



12. Pecteii Islaiidicus (Miiller) Chemnitz. 



Scallop, Iceland Scallop. 



[Pecten, a comb; Islandicus, Icelandic] 



DiSTRiBUTiox. (a) General; — Low-water mark to one 

 hundred fathoms. Cape Cod (very rare to the south of it) to 

 the Arctic Ocean and around the North Atlantic to Northern 

 Europe and Great Britain. 



{!)) Jn Acadia; — (in N. B.) Grand Manan, twenty-five to 

 forty fathoms, shelly bottoms, Slimjjson. Common in Bay 



Fig. 10. — reden Islandicus, Natural Size. 



of Fundy, low-water mark to one hundred fathoms, Verrill. 

 L'Etang Harbor, large, though not abundant, Ganong. (In 

 N. S.) Annapolis Basin, few small specimens, Verhrtizen. 

 Whole coast, Jones. Halifax Harbor, Willis. Not yet 

 reported from Prince Edward Island. [Eev. George Suther- 

 land, in his Natural and Civil History of Prince Edward 



