{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Speciesbox | image = Cinctura hunteria 01.JPG | image_caption = Shell in five views | taxon = Cinctura hunteria | authority = (G. Perry, 1811) | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = * ''Fasciolaria hunteria'' <small>(G. Perry, 1811)</small> * ''Fasciolaria lilium tortugana'' <small>Hollister, 1957</small> * ''Pyrula hunteria'' <small>G. Perry, 1811</small> (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.<ref name="WoRMS">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</ref>
==Description== The shell of ''Cinctura hunteria'' exhibits four to seven primary spiral bands.<ref name="Snyder2012"/>
==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.<ref name="Dalby1989"/> 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.<ref name="Dietl2010"/> When preying on smaller bivalves, ''C. hunteria'' envelopes the shell and forces open the operculum so that it can insert its proboscis.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Mismeasure of Behavior: A Natural History Revision of Prey Preference in the Banded Tulip Snail|url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2983/035.031.0113|journal=Journal of Shellfish Research|date=April 2012|issn=0730-8000|pages=101–109|volume=31|issue=1|doi=10.2983/035.031.0113|language=en|first=Stephen R.|last=Durham|first2=Gregory P.|last2=Dietl|first3=Christy C.|last3=Visaggi|url-access=subscription}}</ref> A large percentage of its diet consists of onuphid worms.<ref name="Paine1963"/>
''Cinctura hunteria'' is prey to the larger fasciolariids ''Fasciolaria tulipa'' and ''Triplofusus giganteus''.<ref name="Paine1963"/> They are also prey to the whitespotted eagle ray ''Aetobatus narinari''.<ref name="Cahill2023"/>
==References== {{Commons category|Cinctura hunteria}} {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Cahill2023">{{Cite journal| doi = 10.3390/fishes8080388| issn = 2410-3888| volume = 8| issue = 8| pages = 388| last1 = Cahill| first1 = Brianna V.| last2 = Eckert| first2 = Ryan J.| last3 = Bassos-Hull| first3 = Kim| last4 = Ostendorf| first4 = Thomas J.| last5 = Voss| first5 = Joshua D.| last6 = DeGroot| first6 = Breanna C.| last7 = Ajemian| first7 = Matthew J.| title = Diet and feeding ecology of the Whitespotted Eagle Ray (Aetobatus narinari) from Florida coastal waters revealed via DNA Barcoding| journal = Fishes| date = 2023-07-26| doi-access = free}}</ref> <ref name="Dalby1989">{{Cite journal| volume = 45| issue = 3| pages = 708–712| last = Dalby| first = James E.| title = Predation of ascidians by Melongena corona (Neogastropoda: Melongenidae) in the northern Gulf of Mexico| journal = Bulletin of Marine Science| date = 1989}}</ref> <ref name="Dietl2010">{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.07.013| issn = 0031-0182| volume = 296| issue = 1–2| pages = 174–184| last1 = Dietl| first1 = Gregory P.| last2 = Durham| first2 = Stephen R.| last3 = Kelley| first3 = Patricia H.| title = Shell repair as a reliable indicator of bivalve predation by shell-wedging gastropods in the fossil record| journal = Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology| date = 2010 }}</ref> <ref name="Paine1963">{{Cite journal| doi = 10.2307/1933181| issn = 0012-9658| volume = 44| issue = 1| pages = 63–73| last = Paine| first = Robert T.| title = Trophic relationships of 8 sympatric predatory gastropods| journal = Ecology| date = 1963 | jstor = 1933181}}</ref> <ref name="Snyder2012">{{Cite journal| volume = 76| issue = 1–3| pages = 31–70| last1 = Snyder| first1 = Martin Avery| last2 = Vermeij| first2 = Geerat J| last3 = Lyons| first3 = William G| title = The genera and biogeography of Fasciolariinae (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Fasciolariidae)| journal = Basteria| date = 2012}}</ref> }} * 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. {{Taxonbar|from=Q5120395}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cinctura Hunteria}} Category:Fasciolariidae Category:Gastropods described in 1811 Category:Taxa named by George Perry (naturalist)
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