Cinctura hunteria

Cinctura hunteria
Shell in five views
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Fasciolariidae
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.

Description

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

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. For larger prey, 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. When preying on smaller bivalves, C. hunteria envelopes the shell and forces open the operculum so that it can insert its proboscis. A large percentage of its diet consists of onuphid worms.

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

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. ↑ Durham, Stephen R.; Dietl, Gregory P.; Visaggi, Christy C. (April 2012). "The Mismeasure of Behavior: A Natural History Revision of Prey Preference in the Banded Tulip Snail". Journal of Shellfish Research. 31 (1): 101–109. doi:10.2983/035.031.0113. ISSN 0730-8000.
  6. 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.
  7. ↑ 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.