Miltha (Megaxinus) gluminda Woodring 1925 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: W. P. Woodring. 1925. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods. Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

Belongs to Miltha (Megaxinus) according to W. P. Woodring 1925

Sister taxa: Megaxinus (Megaxinus), Megaxinus ellipticus, Megaxinus stironensis, Megaxinus striatula, Megaxinus transversa

Type specimen: USNM 352807, a shell

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Bowden Formation (Woodring 1925, 1928 Checklist) (Pliocene of Jamaica)

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