Semiaquatic

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Semiaquatic animals include:

• Vertebrates
  • plainfin midshipman that spawn in the intertidal zone
  • Some amphibians such as newts and salamanders, and some frogs such as fire-bellied toads and wood frogs.
  • Some
    crocodilians, turtles, water snakes and marine iguanas
    .
  • shorebirds
    .
  • Some rodents such as beavers, muskrats and capybaras.
  • Some insectivorous mammals such as desmans, water shrews and platypuses.
  • Some carnivoran mammals, including seals, otter and polar bears.
  • Some marsupials, including the water opossum and the two lutrine opossums.
  • Hippopotamuses.
  • Indian rhinoceros.
  • Water buffalo.
  • Tapirs.
• Semiterrestrial echinoderms of the intertidal zone, such as the "cliff-clinging" sea urchin Colobocentrotus atratus and the starfish Pisaster ochraceus
• Arthropods
  • Aquatic insects (e.g., dragonflies) with at least one non-aquatic life stage (e.g., adults), or amphibious insects (e.g., amphibious caterpillars or the ant Polyrhachis sokolova).^{[note 1]} Members of the hemipteran infraorders Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha occupy a variety of semiaquatic and aquatic niches, with many of the former locomoting on the water surface; a few of these are marine (e.g., Halobates, Hermatobates).
  • Semiaquatic springtails, such as Anurida maritima
  • Semiterrestrial
    isopods, such as Ligia oceanica and some barnacles, such as Balanus glandula
    )
  • tidal flats
  • Semiaquatic
    Argyroneta
    )
  • An amphibious centipede, Scolopendra cataracta
• Semiaquatic annelids, such as the earthworm Sparganophilus
• Molluscs
  • Intertidal
    bivalves, such as Enigmonia
    , which lives on mangroves
  • Intertidal chitons, such as Acanthopleura granulata
  • Semiterrestrial
    gastropods, such as the intertidal Patella vulgata, a limpet; also amphibious freshwater and marine snails, such as Pomatiopsis or Cerithideopsis scalariformis
    , respectively
• Semiterrestrial flatworms of the intertidal zone, such as the acotylean Myoramyxa pardalota^[4]

Semiaquatic plants

Semiaquatic plants include:

• Semiaquatic
  angiosperms (e.g., mangroves, water spinach, water cabbage, and the entire order Nymphaeales
  )
• Semiaquatic
  pond cypress
• Semi
  aquatic ferns, such as Pilularia americana
• A semiaquatic
  horsetail, Equisetum fluviatile
• Semiaquatic
  quillworts, such as Isoetes melanospora
• Semiaquatic
  club mosses, such as Lycopodiella inundata
• Semiaquatic mosses, such as Sphagnum macrophyllum
• Semiaquatic
  liverworts, such as Riccia fluitans