Camitia

Camitia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Camitia
Camitia rotellina shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Camitia
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 [1]
Type species
Camitia pulcherrima Gray, J.E., 1842

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.[3]

Distribution

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

Species

Species within the genus Camitia include:[2]

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References
  1. Gray, Syn. Moll. Brit. Mus. 1840
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Camitia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512311 on 2012-11-23
  3. H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  4. Norman.F. Sohl, Upper Cretaceous Trochacean Gastropods from Puerto Rico and Jamaica; Palaeontographica Americana v. 60 (1998)
  • 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.
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