HORNELL MARINE RESOURCES 



match the coloration of its habitat, while at the junction of the muddy bottom 

 with the sand and gravel of the higher zone at the north end of the bay, a giant 

 anemone, Discosoma sp., was plentiful (Plate VIII.), together with a mcignificent 

 yellow species of the aleyonarian Dendronephthya a cauliflower-like creature nearly 

 related to the red coral of commerce. Even this does not exhaust the faunal variety 



FIG. 2. Lingula from Balapur Bay, showing the 

 proportionate length of the muscular "stalk." 



of the district -the flat-topped, surf-harried reef islets have their own distinctive 

 animal associations mostly free-moving creatures that know how and where to find 

 refuge from the force of the breakers when heavy seas pound the reefs. Of such 

 are crabs, crawfish and other crustaceans in fair variety and several species of octopus. 

 Anemones allied to Tealia and Sagartia are numerous but inconspicuous, while 

 beneath boulders a considerable diversity of molluscs, tunicates, worms, and fishes find 

 refuge. 



