Cinctura is a genus of fasciolariid sea snails known as the banded tulip shells. Species in this genus were previously grouped in the closely related genus Fasciolaria.
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| Subfamily: | Fasciolariinae
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| Genus: | Cinctura |
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| Pyrula hunteria G. Perry, 1811
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Taxonomy
editCinctura was originally proposed as a subgenus of Fasciolaria in 1957 by Solomon Cady Hollister.[1] It was raised to the rank of genus by Snyder et al. in 2012.[2] Cinctura are known as "banded tulip shells"[3]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Cinctura include:
- Cinctura branhamae (Rehder & Abbott, 1951)
- Cinctura hunteria (Perry, 1811)
- Cinctura lilium (Fischer von Waldheim, 1807)
Identification
editCinctura differ from the closely related Fasciolaria in bearing a prominent parietal ridge within the aperture of the shell and in lacking an inflected sutural ramp.[4]
Evolution
editCinctura is closely related to Fasciolaria.[5] The earliest known fossils of Cinctura date to the Piacenzian age of the Pliocene.[6]
Range
editThe range of Cinctura species is restricted to the Gulf of Mexico and off the southeastern United States. No known species, living or extinct, are known from the Caribbean.[7]
References
edit- ^ Hollister 1957.
- ^ Snyder, Vermeij & Lyons 2012, pp. 35–37.
- ^ Petuch & Berschauer 2020, p. 316.
- ^ Snyder, Vermeij & Lyons 2012, p. 36.
- ^ Couto et al. 2016, p. 317.
- ^ Petuch & Berschauer 2020, p. 328.
- ^ Snyder, Vermeij & Lyons 2012, p. 37.
Works cited
edit- Couto, Diogo R.; Bouchet, Philippe; Kantor, Yuri I.; Simone, Luiz R.L.; Giribet, Gonzalo (2016-03-23). "A multilocus molecular phylogeny of Fasciolariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 309–322. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.025. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 27033950.
- Hollister, S. C. (1957). "On the status of Fasciolaria distans Lamarck". The Nautilus. 70 (3): 73–84.
- Petuch, Edward; Berschauer, David (2020-11-01). "A review of the living Cinctura Banded Tulip Shells (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae), with the descriptions of four new subspecies and a new subgenus". The Festivus. 52 (4): 316–334. doi:10.54173/F524316. ISSN 0738-9388. S2CID 242412872.
- 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.
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