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Flamingo tongue snail
Cyphoma gibbosum
Distribution: Caribbean. Description: Middle porcelain, the Cyphomas have a shell with a size of 2 to 3 cm, smooth and shiny, clear yellow to milky-white decorated with light brown or orange ocelli rimmed dark brown to black. Elongated with ends tubed form, it has a transverse bulge in the middle of where his name gibbosum "hunchback" in Latin. Its beauty is that it is harvested by divers and it is likely to be endangered. Habitat: Living generally between 3 and 10 m, it is found attached to the fans. Food: Gorgons and more particularly Gorgonia ventilina. |
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Taxonomic classification
| Phylum: | Molluscs | Class: | Gastropoda | Sub class: | Prosobranchia | To print in "PDF" format |
| Order: | Neotaenioglossa | Sub order: | ¤¤¤ | Familly: | Ovulidae | |
| Genius: | cyphoma | Species: | gibbosum | Descriptor: | Linné, 1758 |  |