A new species of Curvemysella T. Habe, 1959 (Bivalvia: Galeommatoidea) from the Yellow Sea, China

A new species of bivalve, Curvemysella bajie sp. nov. [八戒陷腹蛤] (Bivalvia, Galeommatoidea), is described, based on samples collected from Qingdao (Shandong, China). The intertidal zone of the China Yellow and Bohai Sea is home to a large number of Blepharipoda liberata (Shen, 1949), which often have clams attached to their bodies. Samples of B. liberata were collected from the intertidal zone of Golden Beach in Qingdao and examined for associated molluscs. In addition to description of the shell morphology of C. bajie sp. nov., molecular analysis based on four-gene combined dataset (18S + 28S + H3 + COI) also supports its phylogenetic position.