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Chelonia
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Galapagos
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Chelonia
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Marine reptiles
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2008/02/photogalleries/seamonster-pictures/index.html
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http://www.oceansofkansas.com/FieldGuide3.html
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Plesiosaur
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These animal phyla are also divided into 2 simple groups: invertebrates and vertebrates. The latter has an internal axial skeleton but the former does not.
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INVERTEBRATES - Invertebrates are soft-bodied animals that lack a rigid, internal skeletal support, they are protected in some of these organisms by an exoskeleton. Exoskeletons are composed of various materials from limestone, silica, to chitin.
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Mollusca - Because the invertebrate grouping is not based on lineage or common ancestry, most animals on earth are in this group. In fact, 90% of extinct and living animals are invertebrates. Today here are 33 invertebrate phyla and nearly all of them have marine relatives. Only the phylum Chordata is unusual because its members are recognized by the presence of a stiff rod called the notochord during embryonic development. A few of them lose the notochord as adults. These are the invertebrate chordates. But the 95% that retain it into adulthood are called vertebrates.
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Deepsea fish
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Marine reptilies
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Carnivora - http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Carnivora
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Carnivora - Marine Otter
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marine carnivora - sea lion
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carnivora: Grey seal on Sable Island
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Cetacea - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/641397/67462/Whales-Click-on-an-individual-drawing-to-see-a-larger
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Cetacea
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Sirenia
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MARINE REPTILIES
Salt glands
Chelonia
Marine crocodiles, turtles, sea snakes and marine lizards (iguanas)
MARINE BIRDS
8,600 living species
Endothermic
Seabirds are indicators of oceanic productivity and are second only to marine mammels in consumption of large planctonic crustacean. There are four groups of seabirds: the gulls and the pelicans, and the even more pelagic tubenoses (albatrosses, petrels) and penguins.
MARINE MAMMALIA 4,300 species.
Cetacea -79 living species, echolocation baleen water (whale, dolphin, harbor porpoise)
Carnivora
Sirenia
Marine mamamels, all of which evolved from land ancestors, share common adaptations for life in the ocean. There are thre major groups of marine mammels.
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