Labels:bulletin board | daily | trade name | web site OCR: MOLLUSCS Gastropods flamingo tongue shell often lives on the common blue sea fan or other gorgonians The flamingo has an extensive mantle, or tissue flap that when undisturbed they extrude over the surface of their shell. Unfortunately this lovely, tiger- like mantle IS the flamingo's undoing, is makes the crea- ture almost irresistible shell collectors and novice divers. When dead however the 30F4