Flamingo tongue sea snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) feeding on the polyps of a sea fan coral,or gorgonian. It feeds by sucking the polyps out of their holes. The pattern on its shell is not actually on its shell,which is a dull beige. Instead the coloured part is the snail's fleshy mantle,which it extrudes and wraps around its shell. The flamingo tongue can reach around three centimetres in length. Photographed in the Bahamas | |
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