Camitia

Camitia
Camitia rotellina shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Camitia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Type species
Camitia pulcherrima Gray, J.E., 1842

Camitia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description

The orbicular shell is, depressed, smooth, and polished. The axis is imperforate. The columella is spirally twisted above, forming a false-umbilicus, with a simple margin. The columella has an edentulate edge and ends in a point.

Distribution

The species in this marine genus occur off China and Japan.

Species

Species within the genus Camitia include:

• Camitia pulcherrima Gray, J.E., 1842
• Camitia rotellina (Gould, 1849)
• † Camitia (Micatia) plicata N.F. Sohl, 1998 (from the Maastrichtian of Jamaica)

References

• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp.