Cyphoma gibbosum
(Linnaeus, 1758)
This is not nudibranch or sea slug
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Identification is verified by Richard Willan, Nudi Pixel expert
Comment from Richard Willan: The mollusc in this image is a Flamingo Tongue. It has such a quaint common name. It only occurs in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean – never in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
Comment from Dave Behrens: this is the gastropod - common name - Flamingo Tongue
| Location: | Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles |
| Photographer: | Ken Tucker |
| Taken on: | February 16, 2008 |
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| Posted: | 10 months ago |
| Updated: | 2 months ago |
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Scientific Classification
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Prosobranchia |
| Order: | Sorbeoconcha |
| Family: | Ovulidae |
| Species: | Cyphoma gibbosum |