Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), also known as the Chinese scallop, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk is the scallop family; Pectinidae. 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. References Molluscs described in 1776 farreri Taxa named by Otto Friedrich Müller