Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Cardiida > Superfamily Tellinoidea > Family Tellinidae > Subfamily Tellininae

Fabulina Gray, 1851

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tellina (Fabulina)*	Gray, 1851	synonym

Children

Fabulina fabula (Gmelin, 1791)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Norwegian Bokmål: tallerkenskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: tallerkenskjel

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1851). List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. Part VII, Molluscas Acephala and Brachiopoda. London, Taylor, 167 pp.
basis of record	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
source of synonymy	Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
subsequent type designation	Winckworth, R. (1932). The British marine Mollusca. Journal of Conchology. 19 (7): 211-252.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Fabulina Gray, 1851. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146906