Flamingotongue

I spotted my first Flamingotongue during a night-dive at the house reef of Sun Reef Village on Curaçao: Boca St. Michiel. The Flamingotongue is a nudibranch of 1 to 5 cm that can only be found in the Caribbean Sea. We saw this animal quite often in books and was very high on our wishing list when we went diving in the Dutch Antilles. The orange with black spots that you see is a mantle (soft tissue) what the slug throws around his hard shell. It feeds itself with polyps that he grazes of soft coral.


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