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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 | |
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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) | |
Shell size 59 mm.
Trawled at 20-30 m. depth, off Guisan, Yellow Sea, South Korea
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]
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