List of marine reptiles
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Following is a list of marine reptiles, reptiles which are adapted to life in a marine environment.
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[edit] Extant
The following marine reptiles are species which are currently extant or recently extinct.
[edit] Crocodiles
[edit] Lizards
[edit] Sea snakes
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- Aipysurus
- Aipysurus eydouxii (Spine-tailed Sea Snake)
- Aipysurus laevis (Olive sea snake)
- Astrotia stokesii (Stoke's Sea Snake)
- Disteira
- Disteira major (Olive-headed or greater Sea Snake)
- Disteira nigrocincta
- Disteira walli (Wall's Sea Snake)
- Enhydrina schistosa (Beaked Sea Snake, hook-nosed Sea Snake, common Sea Snake, Valakadyn Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis
- Hydrophis belcheri (Faint-banded Sea Snake, Belcher's Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis bituberculatus (Peters' Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis brooki
- Hydrophis caerulescens (Dwarf Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis cyanocinctus (Annulated Sea Snake, blue-banded Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis fasciatus (Striped Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis inornatus (Plain Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis klossi (Kloss' Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis lapemoides (Persian Gulf Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis mammilaris (Bombay Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis melanocephalus (Slender-necked Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis obscurus (Russell's Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis ornatus (Ornate Reef Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis semperi (Garman's Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis spiralis (Yellow Sea Snake)
- Hydrophis stricticollis (Collared Sea Snake)
- Kerilia jerdonii (Jerdon's Sea Snake)
- Kolpophis annandalei (Bighead Sea Snake)
- Lapemis
- Lapemis curtus (Shaw's Sea Snake)
- Lapemis hardwickii (Hardwicke's spine-bellied Sea Snake)
- Laticauda
- Laticauda colubrina (Colubrine sea krait, yellow-lipped sea krait)
- Laticauda laticaudata (Blue-lipped sea krait)
- Microcephalophis
- Microcephalophis cantoris
- Microcephalophis gracilis (Graceful small-headed Sea Snake, slender Sea Snake)
- Pelamis platurus (Yellowbelly Sea Snake, Pelagic Sea Snake)
- Thalassophina
- Thalassophina viperina
- Thalassophis anomalus (Anomalous Sea Snake)
[edit] Sea turtles
- Flatback Turtle
- Green sea turtle
- Hawksbill turtle
- Kemp's Ridley
- Leatherback Sea Turtle
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle
- Olive Ridley
- Ridley sea turtle
- ((yellow bellied turtles))
- ((musk/stinkpot turtles))
[edit] Extinct
From the Permian to the present day there have been numerous groups of extinct reptiles that have adapted to life in the marine realm:
[edit] Mesosaurs
- Mesosauridae: Early Permian
[edit] Lizards
- Dolichosauridae: Late Cretaceous
- Kaganaias: Late Cretaceous
- Mosasaurs: Late Cretaceous
[edit] Prolacertiformes
- Dinocephalosaurus: Middle Triassic
[edit] Sauropterygians
- Nothosaurs: Triassic
- Pachypleurosaurs: Triassic
- Pistosaurus:Middle Triassic
- Plesiosaurs: Early Jurassic - Late Cretaceous
- Pliosaurs: Early Jurassic - Late Cretaceous
[edit] Ichthyosaurs
[edit] Tanystropheus
[edit] Crocodilians
- Thalattosuchia: Early Jurassic - Early Cretaceous
[edit] Sea turtles
[edit] Thalattosaurs
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