A REDESCRIPTION OF PSEUDOPSAMMOBIA SIMPLEX (GB SOWERBY III, 1894) [BIVALVIA: TELLINIDAE] AND THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM THE ARABIAN REGION, PSEUDOPSAMMOBIA DERELICTA SP. NOV.

The tellinid genus Pseudopsammobia is revisited and the type species P. simplex (Sowerby) from Hong Kong is redescribed. A new species P. derelictus Oliver, Dekker & Al-Kandari is described from Kuwait in the northern Arabian Gulf and disjunctly from the north-eastern Arabian Sea adjacent to Pakistan and northern India. Shells from Thailand and Australia are considered but are not adequately defined due to lack of material.