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...

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...

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

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