Camitia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.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
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.H. Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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)Norman.F. Sohl, Upper Cretaceous Trochacean Gastropods from Puerto Rico and Jamaica; Palaeontographica Americana v. 60 (1998)
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.