User:WolfmanSF/List of semiaquatic organisms

This is a list of organisms that spend part of their life cycle or of which part of their anatomy is underwater.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

Plants

Semiaquatic plants are those whose roots are wholly or partly underwater.

• Mangroves, a type of woody tree or shrub growing in the mangal habitat, consisting of more than 50 species across 17 plant families
• Members of the plant genus Taxodium (Plantae:Pinophyta:Pinopsida...)
  • Taxodium distichum also known as the swamp cypress or bald cypress
  • Taxodium ascendens also known as the pond cypress
  • Taxodium mucronatum also known as the Montezuma cypress or Ahuehuete
• Members of the plant subclass Alismatidae (Plantae: Magnoliophyta: Liliopsida: Alismatidae)

Animals

Semiaquatic animals are those that are primarily

Mammals

• Monotremes
  • Platypus - (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
• Marsupials
  • Lutrine opossum
    - (Lutreolina crassicaudata)
  • Water opossum or yapok - (Chironectes minimus)
• Tenrecs
  • Otter shrews
  • Web-footed tenrec
• Lagomorphs
  • Marsh rabbit
  • Swamp rabbit
• Rodents
  • Paca
  • Beaver
  • Capybara
  • Coypu
  • Crab-eating rats
  • 'Fish-eating rats'
  • 'Marsh rats'
  • Muskrat
  • 'Swamp rats'
  • 'Water mice'
  • 'Water rats'
  • European water vole
• Soricomorphs
  • Desmans
  • '
    Water shrews
    '

• Artiodactyls
  • Hippopotamus
  • Pygmy hippopotamus
  • Chinese water deer
  • Marsh deer
  • Water chevrotain
  • Moose
  • Waterbuck
  • Sitatunga
  • Anoa
  • Wild water buffalo
• Perissodactyla
  • Malayan tapir
  • Baird's tapir
  • Brazilian tapir
  • Javan rhinoceros
  • Sumatran rhinoceros
  • Indian rhinoceros
• Carnivorans
  • Felidae - Cats
    • Fishing cat
    • Flat-headed cat
  • Viverridae - civets and genets
    • Aquatic genet
  • Herpestidae
    - mongoose
    • Crab-eating mongoose
  • Ursidae
    - bears
    • Polar bear - (Ursus maritimus)
  • Pinnipeds
  • Procyonidae - raccoons
    • Crab-eating raccoon - (Procyon cancrivorus)
  • Mustelidae - weasels and otters
    • Minks
    • Otters (except the sea otter)
• Primates
  • Proboscis monkey
  • Allen's swamp monkey

Birds

• Austrodyptornithess
  • Penguin
• Dromaiuss
• Ducks
• Geese
• Swans
• Herons
• Kingfishers
• Gulls
• Pelicans
• Sandpipers
• Plovers
• Auks
• Jaegers
• Dippers

Reptiles

• Crocodilians
• Lizards
  • Green iguana
  • Marine iguana
  • Nile monitor
  • Corytophanidae or basilisks
• Snakes
  • Cottonmouth
  • Anacondas
  • Water snakes
    • Grass snakes
  • Water cobras
  • Garter snakes
  • Rainbow snake
  • Mud snake
• Turtles
  • Giant tortoise
  • Bog turtle
  • Spotted turtle
  • Blanding's turtle
  • Red-eared slider
  • Painted turtle
  • Chicken turtle
  • European pond turtle
  • Western pond turtle
  • Map turtle
  • Diamondback terrapin
  • African side-necked turtles

Amphibians

• Salamanders
  • Newts
• Frogs

Invertebrates

• Decapodas
  • Crab
  • Crayfish
• Arachnids
  • Diving bell spider

See also

• Aquatic ecology
• Aquatic animal
• Aquatic mammal
• Aquatic plant
• Marine biology
• Freshwater biology
• Marine mammal

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