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

Pectinidae Scallop () is a common name that encompasses various species of Marine (ocean), marine bivalve mollusc, molluscs in the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, the common name "scallop" is also ...

Description

Shell size 59 mm.

Distribution

Trawled at 20–30 m. depth, off Guisan,

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History of aquaculture

This species is farmed at an industrial level off

mainland China "Mainland China", also referred to as "the Chinese mainland", is a Geopolitics, geopolitical term defined as the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War. In addit ...

, but production was devastated by a series of [epidemics in the 1990s.An Overview of China's Aquaculture
, . Netherlands Business Support Office (Dalian), 2010. Accessed 13 Aug 2014. It is now thought that this die-off was the result of infections with ''Ostreavirus'', a herpes virus in the family ''Malacoherpesviridae''.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

References

Molluscs described in 1776 farreri Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller {{Pectinidae-stub