| Camitia | |
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| Camitia rotellina shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
- Gray, Syn. Moll. Brit. Mus. 1840
- ^ 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
- H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- 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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| Camitia | |