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]
| Cinctura hunteria | |
|---|---|
| |
| Shell in five views | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | |
| Phylum: | |
| Class: | |
| (unranked): | |
| Superfamily: | |
| Family: | |
| Subfamily: | |
| Genus: | |
| Species: | C. hunteria
|
| Binomial name | |
| Cinctura hunteria (G. Perry, 1811)
| |
| Synonyms | |
| |
Description
editThe shell of Cinctura hunteria exhibits four to seven primary spiral bands.[2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Caribbean Sea the Gulf of Mexico and the Western Atlantic.
Ecology
editCinctura 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
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- 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.
 | This Fasciolariidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |