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extends its six feet of snake-like body in the shallows; the
variety of marine annelids and turbellarians bewilders one ;
the strange DBalanoglosus may be had by the handful;
ascidians and sponges form extensive crusting growths often
gaudily coloured ; molluses arethere in tropical forms; while
fishes, resplendent in gorgeous tints and often of grotesque
form, give colour and life to the coral pools; crowds of
4d mphiozus lurk in the sands.
Richer perhaps, if that may be, than the fauna of the
littoral is that of the surface waters of the bay, where the
tow-net yields “plankton” of a richness that passes the
imagination of a naturalist who knows but the fauna of
northern seas.
By the liberality of Government accredited zoologists
visiting Ceylon may have, under certain easily fulfilled
conditions, permission to make use of the facilities provided
by the Galle Marine Station for the furtherance of their
regearches.