title: Fulvia (bivalve)
text: # Fulvia (bivalve)
  
  Fulvia is a genus of cockles, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Cardiidae. Most species are found in the Indo-Pacific and in Australian waters.
  
  ## Species
  
  The genus includes the following species according to the World Register of Marine Species:
  
  * Subgenus Fulvia
     * Fulvia aperta (Bruguière, 1789)
     * Fulvia australis (G.B. Sowerby II, 1834)
     * Fulvia boholensis Vidal, 1994
     * Fulvia colorata Vidal & Kirkendale, 2007
     * Fulvia dulcis (Deshayes, 1863)
     * Fulvia fragiformis Vidal, 1994
     * Fulvia fragilis (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
     * Fulvia kaarei ter Poorten & Hylleberg, 2017
     * Fulvia laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758)
     * Fulvia mutica (Reeve, 1844)
     * Fulvia natalensis (Krauss, 1848)
     * Fulvia nienkeae ter Poorten, 2012
     * Fulvia scalata Vidal, 1994
     * Fulvia tenuicostata (Lamarck, 1819)
  * Subgenus Laevifulvia
     * Fulvia hungerfordi (G.B. Sowerby III, 1901)
     * Fulvia lineonotata Vidal, 1994
     * Fulvia subquadrata Vidal & Kirkendale, 2007
     * Fulvia undatopicta (Pilsbry, 1904)
  * Synonyms:
     * Fulvia vepris Vidal & Kirkendale, 2007: synonym of Europicardium vepris (Vidal & Kirkendale, 2007)
     * Fulvia papyracea (Bruguière, 1789): synonym of Fulvia laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758)
  