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 | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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]
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gollark: _can't tell if they meant zyu or some hitherto-unknown breed of xenowyrm from the Secret Prize Owners' Biome._
gollark: ```Wants: H: 3G Prize; W: Prize swap or CB Pink Xeno```Pink xenowyrms. They definitely exist. Yes.
gollark: I think most of mine are from there.
gollark: Alpine is better for that, I think.
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Farrer's scallop |
- "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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