When it is alive, this snail, has bright orange-yellow and black markings.
The flamingo tongue feeds by browsing on the living tissues of the soft corals on which it lives.
Adult females attach eggs to coral upon which they have recently fed.
After roughly a week and a half, the larvae hatch.
Early in life they float as plankton.... but will eventually settle onto corals.
Juveniles tend to remain on the underside of coral branches.... while adults are far more visible and mobile.
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