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The amphibians that formed the transitionary bridge between aquatic and

land animals were not the amphibians of today, they were very, very different
animals. The earliest amphibians had scales and quite robust skeletons,
particularly ribs which modern amphibians lack. While superficially they may
look like salamanders, they were not salamanders at all. The earlier groups
likely had a significantly different physiology than modern amphibians.
Furthermore, the early fossils are far more associated with fresh-water
habitats than marine, so there is a good chance that the transitionary bridge
you are looking for are not from marine to land, but from fresh-water to land.
This is supported by the fact that precursor organisms that are believed to
have led to amphibians were lung-breathing fish, fish that developed lungs
because they theoretically inhabited low oxygen, fresh-water habitats like
swamps and marshes. The few marine amphibians from this time might
represent a "returning to the sea" scenario you are looking for.

As for modern amphibians, the Lissamphibia, there is the problem of their


physiology. They are highly adapted to a fresh-water ecosystem, whether
they're actually aquatic or not. Their highly permeable skin would be a very
poor barrier in the marine system, which would lead them toward
dehydration and ionic imbalance. There are a few species that make some
incursions into "marine" habitats, but not exactly for any length of time. For
example, the crab-eating frog, Fejervarya cancrivora, is known to inhabit
brackish swamps and marshes in south-eastern Asia, and will enter the ocean
for excursions to find crabs. In British Columbia, Canada, the western Tiger
Salamander, Ambystoma mavortium, is known to inhabit highly saline lakes
in the Okanagan valley (not exactly a marine environment, but the salinity in
these lakes is often greater than the ocean due to evaporation - whether they
enter the lakes during the highest salinity times is another question).

However, you are somewhat incorrect that there are no modern instances of
land amphibians returning to the 'sea', albeit I would have to say I'm taking a
very generous application of the word 'sea'. The least known order of
amphibians, Order Gymnophiona, the caecilians, represents exactly such a
case of terrestrial back to aquatic. The more ancestral forms of caecilians,
such as the genus Icthyophis are a group that do the land/aquatic lifestyle we
typically associate with most amphibians. These then evolved to more
modern forms that are fully terrestrial, in fact they're fossorial, meaning they
live underground. In South America, a lineage of caecilians family
Typhlonectidae (although some say subfamily Typhlonectinae) have some
members that have returned to a fully aquatic lifestyle, just not in a marine
environment. These are all found east of the Andes in the Amazon area.

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