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Flamingo Tongue

Cyphoma gibbosum

Photo by ChrisP
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Field Notes

Description:

The flamingo tongue can retract its mantle from the shell. Here it is halfway retracted. In the second photo the mantle is covering the shell completely.

Habitat:

Akumal reef, Mexico

Notes:

Cyphoma is a genus of predatory tropical sea snails, a taxonomic group of marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae, a family which is sometimes known as the false cowries or cowry allies.

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Global Coral Reef Monitoring
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Mexico Horn of Plenty
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Yucatan Peninsula Biodiversity
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Mollusca
Photographed
PublishedJune 9, 2013

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