Farrer's scallop

Farrer's scallop, 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. It is now thought that this die-off was the result of infections with Ostreavirus, a herpes virus in the family Malacoherpesviridae.