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  2. Amphibian - Wikipedia

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    The term was initially used as a general adjective for animals that could live on land or in water, including seals and otters. [7] Traditionally, the class Amphibia includes all tetrapod vertebrates that are not amniotes. Amphibia in its widest sense was divided into three subclasses, two of which are extinct: [8]

  3. Terrestrial animal - Wikipedia

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    The cane toad is a terrestrial animal.. Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g. cats, chickens, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g. fish, lobsters, octopuses), and semiaquatic animals, which rely on both aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g. most amphibians).

  4. Hyrax - Wikipedia

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    Hyrax. Hyraxes (from Ancient Greek ὕραξ hýrax ' shrew -mouse'), also called dassies, [1][2] are small, stout, herbivorous mammals in the order Hyracoidea. Hyraxes are well-furred, rotund animals with short tails. [3] Modern hyraxes are typically between 30 and 70 cm (12 and 28 in) in length and weigh between 2 and 5 kg (4 and 11 lb).

  5. List of animals of Long Island Sound - Wikipedia

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    Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States.It forms the maritime border between New York's Long Island and Connecticut.It is diverse and serves as a breeding ground to many different types of marine animal species; the following is a list of said species by scientific and/or common name.

  6. Aquatic mammal - Wikipedia

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    Aquatic mammal. An Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), a member of the infraorder Cetacea of the order Cetartiodactyla. Aquatic mammals and semiaquatic mammals are a diverse group of mammals that dwell partly or entirely in bodies of water. They include the various marine mammals who dwell in oceans, as well as various freshwater species ...

  7. Amphibious fish - Wikipedia

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    Amphibious fish are fish that are able to leave water for extended periods of time. About 11 distantly related genera of fish are considered amphibious. This suggests that many fish genera independently evolved amphibious traits, a process known as convergent evolution. These fish use a range of methods for land movement, such as lateral ...

  8. Aquatic animal - Wikipedia

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    An aquatic animal is any animal, whether vertebrate or invertebrate, that lives in bodies of water for all or most of its lifetime. [1] Aquatic animals generally conduct gas exchange in water by extracting dissolved oxygen via specialised respiratory organs called gills, through the skin or across enteral mucosae, although some are evolved from ...

  9. Rodhocetus - Wikipedia

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    Rodhocetus. Rodhocetus (from Rodho, the geological anticline at the type locality, and cetus, Latin for whale) [ 1 ] is an extinct genus of protocetid early whale known from the Lutetian of Pakistan. [ 2 ] The best-known protocetid, Rodhocetus is known from two partial skeletons that taken together give a complete image of an Eocene whale that ...