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Chlamys farreri

Farrer's scallop
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Ostreoida
Family: Pectinidae
Genus: Chlamys
Species: C. farreri
Binomial name
Chlamys farreri
(Müller, 1776)

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.

This species is farmed at an industrial level off mainland China, but production was devastated by a series of epidemics in the 1990s. It is now thought that this die-off was the result of infections with a herpes virus in the family malacoherpesviridae.



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