MILTHINAE Chavan, 1969

Taylor, John D. & Glover, Emily A., 2018, Hanging on - lucinid bivalve survivors from the Paleocene and Eocene in the western Indian Ocean (Bivalvia: Lucinidae), Zoosystema 40 (7), pp. 123-142 : 130

Subfamily MILTHINAE Chavan, 1969

REMARKS

Most of the genera with living species included in the subfamily by Chavan (1969) have now been assigned to other subfamilies ( Taylor et al. 2011). Two genera, Miltha H. & A. Adams, 1853 and Eomiltha Cossmann, 1912 , remain and the status of the subfamily is unresolved pending inclusion of any of the three living species in molecular analysis. Despite the name, shell characters of Eomiltha have little similarity to Miltha and any relationship is doubtful. In the following section we introduce a new genus name for the living species usually called Eomiltha voorhoevei together with an antecedent species from the Eocene. To provide background to this decision we briefly review Eomiltha below.