Sea SnakesNew South Wales University Press, 1987 - 85 sivua Sixty percent of the world's sea snakes are in Australian territorial waters - here's where they are, what they eat and who eats them, how they dive, breathe, reproduce, and function in their varying habitats. |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 13
Sivu 15
... carried , and also have them placed further forward in the body than do land snakes . This is probably a reflection ... carry a lower total weight of eggs for their body size than do oviparous land snakes ; again , the egg mass in marine ...
... carried , and also have them placed further forward in the body than do land snakes . This is probably a reflection ... carry a lower total weight of eggs for their body size than do oviparous land snakes ; again , the egg mass in marine ...
Sivu 37
... carry a greater air supply with them . Another means would be to take a greater amount of oxygen carried in the blood . The latter could be achieved by having either ( 1 ) more blood than land snakes of equivalent size and thus a ...
... carry a greater air supply with them . Another means would be to take a greater amount of oxygen carried in the blood . The latter could be achieved by having either ( 1 ) more blood than land snakes of equivalent size and thus a ...
Sivu 77
... carry the risk of being bitten . Certain occupations , like fishing in some parts of the world , include snake bite as a normal occupational hazard and different methods of fishing , or snake catching , carry different degrees of risk ...
... carry the risk of being bitten . Certain occupations , like fishing in some parts of the world , include snake bite as a normal occupational hazard and different methods of fishing , or snake catching , carry different degrees of risk ...
Sisältö
THE KINDS OF SEA SNAKES | 1 |
NATURAL HISTORY OF SEA SNAKES | 12 |
ADAPTATIONS OF SEA SNAKES | 31 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
1 muita osia ei näytetty
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Acrochordidae Acrochordus granulatus active Aipysurus eydouxii amount anaerobic respiration animals antivenom Astrotia stokesii Australian Biology body Bohr shift breathing captured carbon dioxide cent colubrids delivered diving syndrome eels eggs elapids Emydocephalus Enhydrina schistosa envenomation enzymes estuaries fang fish foraging freshwater function generalist granulated file snake habitat Haemotoxins heart rate Heatwole Heuvelmans homalopsines home ranges humans Hydrophis kidney land snakes Lapemis hardwickii Laticauda colubrina limbs mammals mangrove marine snakes membrane metabolic rate mice muscle Myotoxins natricines Nerodia neurotoxins niche nitrogen occur olive sea snake oxygen debt Pelamis platurus predators prey reefs release reproductive reptiles respiratory saccular lung salt glands sea kraits sea serpents sea snake Aipysurus sea snake bite sea snake venom sea water skin snake Aipysurus laevis snake venoms specialists species of snake submergence surface swallowing swimming symptoms teeth terrestrial tissue toxicity toxins true sea snakes venom apparatus venom gland venomous sea snakes vertebrates