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 skid mark 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[1]
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.^[2]