Farrer's scallop explained

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

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.<ref>"[http://china.nlambassade.org/binaries/content/assets/postenweb/c/china/zaken-doen-in-china/import/kansen_en_sectoren/agrofood/rapporten_over_agro_food/an-overview-of-chinas-aquaculture 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.^[1]

Notes and References

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