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Animals like ghariyal and crocodile live in water as well as land . Are they amphibians or reptiles?

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(i)Crocodiles and ghariyals a reptiles. Crocodiles and ghariyals breathe through lungs both on land and in water.
(ii) They have dry scaly skin .
(iii) They lay leathery soft eggs on land .
(iv) Amphibians have moist skin with no scales.
(v) They lay eggs in water which hatch in to larve that metamorphose from an aquatic to air-breathing form.
(vi) They breathe through their skin when in water and through lungs when on land .
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