Farrer's scallop

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
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Pectinida
Family: Pectinidae
Genus: Chlamys
Species:
C. farreri
Binomial name
Chlamys farreri
(Müller, 1776)

History of aquaculture

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

  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


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