This announcement reports the genome of Vibrio lentus VLO8 recovered from the larval culture of Chilean scallop. The genomes of strain VLO8 have two contigs with a total length of 5,499,980 bp, an average G + C content of 44.22%, a total number of protein-coding genes of 6,439, and 170 RNAs.
Keywords: Argopecten purpuratus; Vibrio; Vibrio lentus; larvae of molluscs; virulence factors.