Flamingo tongue snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, is a small but brightly colored sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk of the family Ovulidae, the ovulids or false cowries, found on coral reefs of the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic. Its plain orange-tan shell is normally hidden beneath a vividly patterned mantle of leopard-like spots that the living animal can withdraw at will, and it feeds on the soft tissue of sea fans and other soft corals.
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Source Wikidata: Flamingo Tongue Snail
In Biome
Marine, Biomes Source Wikipedia: Flamingo tongue snail
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belize, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Chile, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Colombia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Costa Rica, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Cuba, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Jamaica, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Mexico, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: North America, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Panama, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Venezuela, found in there.
Sources
1. GBIF Species API
2. Wikipedia: Flamingo tongue snail
Wikipedia- Wikidata Q2373541 (P225 taxon name)
In Biome: Marine, Lead section
The flamingo tongue snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) is a species of small but brightly colored sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
View the Source IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Wikidata: Flamingo Tongue Snail
- Wikidata Q2373541, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Child Taxon Of: Gastropoda, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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