Camitia H. Adams & A. Adams 1854

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

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]

• Camitia pulcherrima Gray, J.E., 1842
• Camitia rotellina (Gould, 1849)
• † Camitia (Micatia) plicata N.F. Sohl, 1998 (from the Maastrichtian of Jamaica)^[4]

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.

Camitia is een geslacht van weekdieren uit de klasse van de Gastropoda (slakken).

Soort

• Camitia rotellina (Gould, 1849)