Farrer's scallop
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| Species: | C. farreri
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| Chlamys farreri (Müller, 1776)
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Farrer's scallop, also known as the Chinese scallop, scientific name Chlamys farreri, is a species of scallop, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.
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 a herpes virus in the family malacoherpesviridae.[2]
References
- ^ "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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