Cinctura hunteria

Cinctura hunteria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Fasciolariidae
Subfamily:	Fasciolariinae
Genus:	Cinctura
Species:	C. hunteria
Binomial name
	Cinctura hunteria; (G. Perry, 1811)
Synonyms
	Fasciolaria hunteria (G. Perry, 1811); Fasciolaria lilium tortugana Hollister, 1957; Pyrula hunteria G. Perry, 1811 (basionym);

Cinctura hunteria the Northern banded tulip is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.^[1]

Description[edit]

Distribution[edit]

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea the Gulf of Mexico and the Western Atlantic.

Ecology[edit]

Cinctura hunteria is a predator with a diet that includes polychaetes, bivalves, sea squirts, and other snails.^[2] It wedges bivalve shells open with the apertural lip of its own shell, which can break the edge of its shell; C. hunteria shells often have repair scars as a result of this damage.^[3]

References[edit]

^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Cinctura hunteria (Perry, 1811). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=607920 on 2012-08-23
^ Dalby, James E. (1989). "Predation of ascidians by Melongena corona (Neogastropoda: Melongenidae) in the northern Gulf of Mexico". Bulletin of Marine Science. 45 (3): 708–712.
^ Dietl, Gregory P.; Durham, Stephen R.; Kelley, Patricia H. (2010). "Shell repair as a reliable indicator of bivalve predation by shell-wedging gastropods in the fossil record". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 296 (1–2): 174–184. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.07.013. ISSN 0031-0182.

Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
Snyder M.A., Vermeij G.J. & Lyons W.G. (2012) The genera and biogeography of Fasciolariinae (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Fasciolariidae). Basteria 76(1–3): 31–70

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[WoRMS-1] Bouchet, P. (2012). Cinctura hunteria (Perry, 1811). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=607920 on 2012-08-23

[Dalby1989-2] Dalby, James E. (1989). "Predation of ascidians by Melongena corona (Neogastropoda: Melongenidae) in the northern Gulf of Mexico". Bulletin of Marine Science. 45 (3): 708–712.

[Dietl2010-3] Dietl, Gregory P.; Durham, Stephen R.; Kelley, Patricia H. (2010). "Shell repair as a reliable indicator of bivalve predation by shell-wedging gastropods in the fossil record". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 296 (1–2): 174–184. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.07.013. ISSN 0031-0182.

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