Miltha (Miltha) Adams and Adams 1857 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Parent taxon: Miltha according to E. J. Moore 1988

See also Woodring 1925

Sister taxa: Lucina (Miltha) contorta, Miltha (Matanziella), Miltha (Plastomiltha), Miltha (Recticardo), Miltha africana, Miltha childreni, Miltha chipolana, Miltha claibornensis, Miltha hamptonensis, Miltha hillsboroensis, Miltha inflata, Miltha merangiana, Miltha pandata, Miltha xantusi, Phacoides (Miltha) hernandoensis

Subtaxa: Miltha (Miltha) caloosaensis Miltha (Miltha) carmenae Miltha (Miltha) childrenae Miltha (Miltha) jacalitosana Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis Miltha (Miltha) parsoni Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (23: Florida collections)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: Florida)

• Pliocene of United States (18: California, Florida)

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), United States (9: California)

• Oligocene of United States (9: California)

• Eocene of Romania (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (6: California)

• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California)

Total: 74 collections each including a single occurrence

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