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Marine iguana. The marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus), also known as the sea iguana, saltwater iguana, or Galápagos marine iguana, is a species of iguana found only on the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). Unique among modern lizards, it is a marine reptile that has the ability to forage in the sea for algae, which makes up almost all of its ...
Marine reptile. Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment. Only about 100 of the 12,000 extant reptile species and subspecies are classed as marine reptiles, including marine iguanas, sea snakes, sea turtles and saltwater crocodiles. [1]
Hydrophis ornatus (Ornate reef sea snake) Hydrophis semperi (Garman's sea snake) Hydrophis spiralis (Yellow sea snake) Hydrophis stricticollis (Collared sea snake) Hydrophis viperinus. Kerilia jerdonii (Jerdon's sea snake) Kolpophis annandalei (Bighead sea snake) Lapemis. Lapemis curtus (Shaw's sea snake)
Monitor lizards are traded globally and are the most common type of lizard to be exported from Southeast Asia, with 8.1 million exported between 1998 and 2007 for the international leather market. [35] Today the majority of the harvesting of feral water monitors occurs in Southeast Asia, in Indonesia, and in peninsular Malaysia. [36]
Hydrosaurus pustulatus, commonly known as the Philippine sailfin lizard or the Philippine sailfin dragon, is a large semiaquatic agamid lizard endemic to all of the major island groups of the Philippines, with the exception of the Palawan islands. [2][1][3][4] Like other sailfin lizards, they are characterized by large sail-like dorsal crests ...
Glaucus atlanticus is the blue sea slug shown here out of water on a beach, and thus collapsed; however, touching the animal directly with your skin can result in a painful sting, with symptoms similar to those caused by the Portuguese man o' war. The slug in the water.
Clidastes conodonCope, 1881. Mosasaurus (/ ˌmoʊzəˈsɔːrəs /; "lizard of the Meuse River ") is the type genus (defining example) of the mosasaurs, an extinct group of aquatic squamate reptiles. It lived from about 82 to 66 million years ago during the Campanian and Maastrichtian ages. The genus was one of the first Mesozoic marine reptiles ...
Chinese water dragon. Physignathus cocincinus is a species of agamid lizard native to southern China and mainland Southeast Asia. [2] It is commonly known as the Chinese water dragon, [2][3] Indochinese water dragon, [4][5] Asian water dragon, [6][7][5] Thai water dragon, [3] or green water dragon. [3][5] Chinese water dragons are large diurnal ...