Camitia
Appearance
Camitia | |
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Camitia rotellina shell | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Trochidae |
Genus: | Camitia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854[1] |
Type species | |
Camitia pulcherrima Gray, J.E., 1842
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Camitia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
Description
[edit]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
[edit]The species in this marine genus occur off China and Japan.
Species
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Gray, Syn. Moll. Brit. Mus. 1840
- ^ a b 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.