Semiaquatic

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.

Atlantic mudskippers, amphibious fish of mangrove swamps and tidal flats

The white Egyptian lotus, a semiaquatic angiosperm

Mangoves are shrubs or trees that are well adapted to grow in very saline water, usually at estuaries of rivers

Some plants have also adapted to being both in the water and on land.