phytophagous

Updated: January 29, 2026

Of this family, one of the most remarkable animals on the coast is the dugong , a phytophagous cetacean, numbers of which are attracted to the inlets, from the bay of Calpentyn to Adam's Bridge, by the still water and the abundance of marine algæ in these parts of the gulf.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon