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7 unusual facts about terrestrial animal


Albatrellus

Species of Albatrellus are terrestrial, with fleshy fruit bodies that differentiate into caps and stems; the stem is either central or eccentric to lateral.

Armadillosuchus

Because of its unique morphology, it is believed to have had a terrestrial and quite possibly fossorial lifestyle.

Bergisuchus

Unlike other crocodyliforms present in the Messel Pit, Bergisuchus was a small terrestrial hypercarnivore.

Chamaeleo

The vast majority are arboreal and typically found in trees or bushes, but a few species (notably the Namaqua Chameleon) are partially or largely terrestrial.

Pristichampsidae

Pristichampsids were land-living (terrestrial) crocodilians with longer legs than living species of crocodilians.

Trachyboa

They are largely terrestrial fish-eating snakes that inhabit tropical lowlands.

Trilophosuchus

Unlike living crocodilians, it is hypothesized to have been terrestrial.


Amphibola crenata

Amphibola crenata (titiko in the Māori language or mud-flat snail in English) is a species of air breathing snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc which lives in a habitat that is intermediate between the land and the sea, not entirely terrestrial and not entirely marine.

Mycetophilidae

The terrestrial larvae usually feed on fungi, especially the fruiting bodies but also spores and hyphae, but some species have been recorded on mosses and liverworts.

Northern slimy salamander

The northern slimy salamander, Plethodon glutinosus, is a species of terrestrial plethodontid salamander found through much of the eastern two-thirds of the United States, from New York, west to Illinois, south to Texas, and east to Florida, with isolated populations in southern New Hampshire and northwestern Connecticut.

Penescosta mathewsi

Penescosta mathewsi is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae.

Penescosta sororcula

Penescosta sororcula is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae.

Puerto Rican Boa

The Puerto Rican boa (Chilabothrus inornatus) is a species of slender, terrestrial, viviparous boa with a dark brown coloration.


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