Farrer's scallop
Species of bivalve From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pectinida |
| Family: | Pectinidae |
| Genus: | Chlamys |
| Species: | C. farreri |
| Binomial name | |
| Chlamys farreri (Müller, 1776) | |
Description
Shell size 59 mm.
Distribution
Trawled at 20–30 m. depth, off Guisan, Yellow Sea, South Korea
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
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