Cinctura
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| Cinctura Temporal range: | |
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| Shell of Cinctura hunteria | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Fasciolariidae |
| Genus: | Cinctura Hollister, 1957 |
| Type species | |
| Pyrula hunteria G. Perry, 1811 | |
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.
Species
Species within the genus Cinctura include:
- Cinctura branhamae (Rehder & Abbott, 1951)
- Cinctura hunteria (Perry, 1811)
- Cinctura lilium (Fischer von Waldheim, 1807)
Identification
Cinctura 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]
