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Semiaquatic
Spends part of their time in water, or grows partially submerged in water / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Semi-aquatic animals spend part of their life on land, and part in the water. Such animals include:
- Some insects, for example dragonflies spend part of their life in the water
- Whirlygig beetles live on top of the water.
- Amphibious fish spend some of their life on dry land.
- Many tetrapods spend extended periods of time in the water
- Amphibians (toads, salamanders, newts) need a wet skin for the life stages they spend outside the water
- Many crustaceans live on the seashore, and at lakesides, and have adapted to being submerged.
- Some spiders.
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Some plants have also adapted to being both in the water and on land.