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”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=2012-04|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}}</ref> A large percentage of its diet consists of [[Onuphidae|onuphid]] worms.<ref name=”Paine1963″/> |
”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=2012-04|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}}</ref> A large percentage of its diet consists of [[Onuphidae|onuphid]] worms.<ref name=”Paine1963″/> |
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”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″/> |
”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″/> |
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Latest revision as of 03:33, 28 November 2025
Species of gastropod
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]
The shell of Cinctura hunteria exhibits four to seven primary spiral bands.[2]
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea the Gulf of Mexico and the Western Atlantic.
Cinctura hunteria is a predator with a diet that includes polychaetes, bivalves, sea squirts, and other snails.[3] 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.[4] When preying on smaller bivalves, C. hunteria envelopes the shell and forces open the operculum so that it can insert its proboscis.[5] A large percentage of its diet consists of onuphid worms.[6]
Cinctura hunteria is prey to the larger fasciolariids Fasciolaria tulipa and Triplofusus giganteus.[6] They are also prey to the whitespotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari.[7]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Durham, Stephen R.; Dietl, Gregory P.; Visaggi, Christy C. (2012-04). “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.
- ^ 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. ISSNÂ 2410-3888.
- Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. GarcÃa. 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.
