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===Other=== [[Sea snake]]s feed exclusively on fish and their eggs.<ref>{{cite book|last=Heatwole|first=Harold|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=lSgWAQAAIAAJ}}|title=Sea snakes|year=1999|publisher=Krieger|location=Malabar, Fla|isbn=978-1-57524-116-6|edition=2.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Li|first=Min|author2=Fry, B.G. |author3=Kini, R. Manjunatha |title=Eggs-Only Diet: Its Implications for the Toxin Profile Changes and Ecology of the Marbled Sea Snake (Aipysurus eydouxii)|journal=Journal of Molecular Evolution|date=1 January 2005|volume=60|issue=1|pages=81β89|doi=10.1007/s00239-004-0138-0|pmid=15696370|bibcode=2005JMolE..60...81L|s2cid=17572816}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Voris|first=Harold K.|title=Fish Eggs as the Apparent Sole Food Item for a Genus of Sea Snake, Emydocephalus (Krefft)|journal=Ecology|date=1 January 1966|volume=47|issue=1|pages=152β154|doi=10.2307/1935755|jstor=1935755|bibcode=1966Ecol...47..152V }}</ref> Marine birds, such as [[heron]]s, [[gannet]]s, [[pelican]]s and [[boobies]], feed on reef fish. Some land-based [[reptile]]s intermittently associate with reefs, such as [[monitor lizard]]s, the [[Crocodylus porosus|marine crocodile]] and semiaquatic snakes, such as ''[[Laticauda colubrina]]''. [[Sea turtle]]s, particularly [[hawksbill sea turtle]]s, feed on sponges.<ref name="Sea turtle loss">{{cite journal|last=McClenachan|first=Loren|author2=Jackson, Jeremy BC |author3=Newman, Marah JH |title=Conservation implications of historic sea turtle nesting beach loss|journal=Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment|date=1 August 2006|volume=4|issue=6|pages=290β296 |doi=10.1890/1540-9295(2006)4[290:ciohst]2.0.co;2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lutz |first1=Peter L. |url= {{google books |plainurl=y |id=QNRBDwAAQBAJ}} |title=The biology of sea turtles |year=1996 |publisher=CRC Press |location=Boca Raton, Fla|isbn=978-0849384226 |last2=Musick |first2=John A.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Meylan |first=Anne |title=Spongivory in Hawksbill Turtles: A Diet of Glass |journal= Science |date=January 22, 1988 |volume=239 |issue=4838 |pages= 393β395 |doi= 10.1126/science.239.4838.393 |pmid= 17836872 |bibcode= 1988Sci...239..393M |s2cid=22971831 }}</ref> <gallery mode="packed"> File:Prionurus laticlavius.jpg|[[Shoaling and schooling|Schooling]] [[reef fish]] File:Caribbean reef squid.jpg|[[Caribbean reef squid]] File:Stenopus hispidus (high res).jpg|[[Banded coral shrimp]] File:Triaenodon obesus moc.jpg|[[Whitetip reef shark]] File:Green turtle John Pennekamp.jpg|[[Green turtle]] File:Red sea-reef 3627.jpg|[[Giant clam]] File:Nephtheidae komodo.jpg|Soft coral, cup coral, sponges and ascidians File:Laticauda colubrina (Wakatobi).jpg|[[Banded sea krait]] File:Latiaxis wormaldi 002.jpg|The shell of ''[[Latiaxis wormaldi]]'', a coral snail </gallery>
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