Cinctura is a genus of fasciolariid sea snails known as the banded tulip shells.

Cinctura was originally proposed as a subgenus of Fasciolaria in 1957 by Solomon Cady Hollister.

[2] Cinctura are known as "banded tulip shells"[3] Species within the genus Cinctura include: 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.

[5] The earliest known fossils of Cinctura date to the Piacenzian age of the Pliocene.

[6] The range of Cinctura species is restricted to the Gulf of Mexico and off the southeastern United States.