Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), also known as the Chinese scallop, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk is the scallop family; Pectinidae.

Farrer's scallop
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pectinida
Family: Pectinidae
Genus: Chlamys
Species:
C. farreri
Binomial name
Chlamys farreri
(Müller, 1776)

Description

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Shell size 59 mm.

Distribution

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Trawled at 20-30 m. depth, off Guisan, Yellow Sea, South Korea

History of aquaculture

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This species is farmed at an industrial level off mainland China, but production was devastated by a series of [epidemics in the 1990s.[1] It is now thought that this die-off was the result of infections with Ostreavirus, a herpes virus in the family Malacoherpesviridae.[2]


References

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  1. ^ "An Overview of China's Aquaculture", p. 6. Netherlands Business Support Office (Dalian), 2010. Accessed 13 Aug 2014.
  2. ^ Ren W, Chen H, Renault T, Cai Y, Bai C, Wang C, Huang J (2013) Complete genome sequence of acute viral necrosis virus associated with massive mortality outbreaks in the Chinese scallop, Chlamys farreri" Virol J 10(1) 110