Alex Mustard / Flamingo tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum) feeding on a seafan (Gorgonia ventalina) Cyphomas feed on corals and concentrate the toxic chemicals into their mantle, which they then wrap around the outside of it...

Norbert Wu / Flamingo Tongue Snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) feeding on Common Sea Fan (Gorgonia ventalina) showing deep purple tone where the Sea Fan has released protective compounds, Saba, Caribbean

David Fleetham / Pattern on a Flamingo Tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum). Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean.

Franco Banfi / Flamingo tongue cowrie (Cyphoma gibbosum) on Common sea fan (Gorgonia ventalina) Santa Lucia, Camaguey, Cuba, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean

Franco Banfi / Flamingo tongue cowrie (Cyphoma gibbosum) Isla de la Juventud, Cuba, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean

Alex Mustard / Flamingo tongue cowrie (Cyphoma gibbosum) on coral. Bloody Bay Wall, Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. Caribbean Sea.

Alex Mustard / Flamingo tongue cowrie (Cyphoma gibbosum) feeding on Sea rod soft corals.This species of cowrie absorbs toxic chemicals from the corals into body to become poisonous itself. East End, Grand Cayman, Ca...

Alex Mustard / Fingerprint cyphoma (Cyphoma signatum) mollusc feeding on soft corals. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Caribbean Sea.

Alex Mustard / Fingerprint cyphoma / false cowrie (Cyphoma signatum) feeding on a sea rod (soft coral) East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.

Hiroya Minakuchi / Flamingo Tongue Snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) pair on coral, Caribbean

Pete Oxford / Flamingo Tongue Snail (Cyphoma gibbosum), Quintana Roo, Mexico

Claudio Contreras / Flamingo tongue shell (Cyphoma gibbosum) on Sea fan (Gorgonia sp) Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve, Caribbean Sea, Mexico, May

Claudio Contreras / Flamingo tongue shell (Cyphoma gibbosum) feeding on Venus sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum) Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve, Caribbean Sea, Mexico, May

Fred Bavendam / Flamingo Tongue Snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) on a Common Sea Fan (Gorgonia ventalina), Bahamas, Caribbean

Juergen Freund / Flamingo tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum) on fan coral, Caribbean

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Flamingo tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum) attached to and feeding on Gorgonian coral. Caribbean, Atlantic Ocean.

Juergen Freund / Flamingo tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum) on fan coral, Caribbean

Dan Burton / Flamingo tongue cowrie (Cyphoma gibbosum) feeding on coral, Florida, USA

Constantinos Petrinos / Flamingo tongue cowrie {Cyphoma gibbosum} Grand Cayman, Caribbea

Solvin Zankl / Two Flamingo tongue nudibranchs {Cyphoma gibbosum} on coral Bahamas, Caribbean

Juergen Freund / Flamingo tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum) on fan coral, Caribbean

Juergen Freund / Flamingo tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum) on fan coral, Caribbean

David Fleetham / Flamingo tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum), feeding on a gorgonian coral fan, Bahamas

Roberto Rinaldi / Flamingo tongue snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) feeding on soft coral, Belize

Roberto Rinaldi / Flamingo tongue snail (Cyphoma gibbosum), Honduras.

Alex Mustard / Flamingo tongue cowrie (Cyphoma gibbosum) resting on a sea rod, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, Caribbean Sea.

Alex Mustard / Flamingo tongue cowrie (Cyphoma gibbosum) resting on a Common sea fan (Gorgonia ventalina), Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, Caribbean Sea.

Alex Mustard / A pair of Flamingo tongue cowries (Cyphoma gibbosum) on a common sea fan (Gorgonia ventalina) which they predate upon, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.

Alex Mustard / Flamingo tongue snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) feeding on Common sea fan (Gorgonia ventalina), Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, Caribbean Sea.

Claudio Contreras / Flamingo tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum), Xkalac Reefs National Park, Caribbean region, Mexico.

Claudio Contreras / Flamingo Tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum), on featherstar, Cienaga de Zapata National Park, Matanzas Province, Cuba.

Shane Gross / Flamingo tongue cowries (Cyphoma gibbosum) mating on a sea rod, The Bahamas.