Flamingo tongue snail

Flamingo tongue snail
	Feeding on a soft coral; the siphon is visible at the top, and the tip of the tail is visible at the bottom. A large feeding scar is visible as a brown stripe on the coral. These snails are pink and orange.
	Five views of a shell of Cyphoma gibbosum (Linné, 1758)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Ovulidae
Genus:	Cyphoma
Species:	C. gibbosum
Binomial name
	Cyphoma gibbosum; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	List Bulla gibbosa Linnaeus, 1758; Cyphoma alleneae Cate, 1973; Cyphoma dorsatum Röding, 1798; Cyphoma finkli Petuch, 1979; Cyphoma gibbosa (Linnaeus, 1758) (error in gender ending); Cyphoma lindae Petuch, 1987; Cyphoma macumba Petuch, 1979 (uncertain synonym); Cyphoma mcgintyi Pilsbry, 1939; Cyphoma precursor Dall, 1897; Cyphoma robustior Bayer, 1941; Cyphoma signata Pilsbry & McGinty, 1939 (error in gender ending); Cyphoma signatum Pilsbry & McGinty, 1939; Ovula pharetra Perry, 1811; Ovula rostrata Mörch, 1877;

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.

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