Cinctura hunteria

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Cinctura hunteria
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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 tortuganaHollister, 1957
  • Pyrula hunteriaG. 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]

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Description

The shell of Cinctura hunteria exhibits four to seven primary spiral bands. [2]

Distribution

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

Ecology

Cinctura hunteria is a predator with a diet that includes polychaetes, bivalves, sea squirts, and other snails. [3] 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. [4] A large percentage of its diet consists of onuphid worms. [5]

Cinctura hunteria is prey to the larger fasciolariids Fasciolaria tulipa and Triplofusus giganteus . [5] They are also prey to the whitespotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari . [6]

References

  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
  2. ↑ Snyder, Martin Avery; Vermeij, Geerat J; Lyons, William G (2012). "The genera and biogeography of Fasciolariinae (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Fasciolariidae)". Basteria. 76 (1–3): 31–70.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. 1 2 Paine, Robert T. (1963). "Trophic relationships of 8 sympatric predatory gastropods". Ecology. 44 (1): 63–73. doi:10.2307/1933181. ISSN   0012-9658. JSTOR   1933181.
  6. ↑ Cahill, Brianna V.; Eckert, Ryan J.; Bassos-Hull, Kim; Ostendorf, Thomas J.; Voss, Joshua D.; DeGroot, Breanna C.; Ajemian, Matthew J. (26 July 2023). "Diet and feeding ecology of the Whitespotted Eagle Ray (Aetobatus narinari) from Florida coastal waters revealed via DNA Barcoding". Fishes. 8 (8): 388. doi: 10.3390/fishes8080388 . ISSN   2410-3888.


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