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Central Visayas, Philippines
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South Sound, British Virgin Islands
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A Flamingo Tongue, Cyphoma gibbosum, is pictured here riding atop a crumpled blade of Network Alga, Microdictyon marinum. This might be the first time in all of the years I have photographed Caribbean reef life that I have seen a Flamingo Tongue attached to anything other than a soft coral.
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Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia
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Kingdom=AnimaliaPhylum=MolluscaClass=Gastropodaunranked clade=Caenogastropodaclade=Hypsogastropodaclade=LittorinimorphaSuperfamily=CypraeoideaFamily=OvulidaeSubfamily=OvulinaeGenus=VolvaSpecies=habeiBinomial name=Volva habei ID by Shadowshador(Flickr)Common name=False Cowry
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Kasawari, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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These sea snails have a snow white shell, which is covered by a black mantle that you can see in this photo. If the cowrie is disturbed it can retract these skin flaps into the underside of the shell, exposing the white. You can see a faint white slit at the top of the animal; this is where the two halves of the mantle meet.
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Kasawari, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Coast, Kenya
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Simei, North East, Singapore
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Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia