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  2. Marine reptile - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Vertebrate - Wikipedia

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    The vertebrates include mammals, birds, amphibians, and various classes of fish and reptiles. The fish include the jawless Agnatha, and the jawed Gnathostomata. The jawed fish include both the cartilaginous fish and the bony fish. Bony fish include the lobe-finned fish, which gave rise to the tetrapods, the animals with four

  4. Marine vertebrate - Wikipedia

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    Hagfish form a class of about 20 species of eel-shaped, slime-producing marine fish. They are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column. Lampreys form a superclass containing 38 known extant species of jawless fish. [3] The adult lamprey is characterized by a toothed, funnel-like sucking mouth.

  5. Sarcopterygii - Wikipedia

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    Sarcopterygii (/ ˌ s ɑːr k ɒ p t ə ˈ r ɪ dʒ i. aɪ /; from Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx) 'flesh' and πτέρυξ (ptérux) 'wing, fin') — sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii (from Ancient Greek κροσσός (krossós) 'fringe') — is a clade (traditionally a class or subclass) of vertebrate animals which includes a group of bony fish commonly referred to as lobe ...

  6. Osteichthyes - Wikipedia

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    Osteichthyes (/ ˌ ɒ s t iː ˈ ɪ k θ iː z / ost-ee-IK-theez), [2] also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.

  7. 32 types of reptiles you can keep as a pet - AOL

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    Calling all budding herpetologists! These are the best types of reptiles you can keep as a pet

  8. 11-year-old’s beach find was likely largest known marine ...

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    But it’s possible that the 202 million-year-old reptile, known as an ichthyosaur or “fish lizard,” may have rivaled it in size. ... had the animal not died, it likely would have kept getting ...

  9. List of cartilaginous fish - Wikipedia

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    The following is the full list of the extant species in Class Chondrichthyes, or the cartilaginous fish. Members of this class have a backbone , gills , no swim bladder , jaws , and a skeleton made of cartilage , a soft, strong material as a replacement for bone .