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Farrer's scallop
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| Farrer's scallop | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | Pectinidae |
| Genus: | Chlamys |
| Species: | C. farreri
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| Binomial name | |
| Chlamys farreri (Müller, 1776)
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Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), also known as the Chinese scallop, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk is the scallop family; Pectinidae.
Description
[edit]Shell size 59 mm.
Distribution
[edit]Trawled at 20–30 m. depth, off Guisan, Yellow Sea, South Korea
History of aquaculture
[edit]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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Wikispecies has information related to Farrer's scallop.
- ^ "An Overview of China's Aquaculture", p. 6. Netherlands Business Support Office (Dalian), 2010. Accessed 13 Aug 2014.
- ^ 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
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