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 21
Sivu 2
... known from the fossil record before the Miocene ( less than 25 million years ago ) . The families of non- venomous terrestrial snakes , which later gave rise to marine and freshwater representatives ( Fig . 1.1 ) , either have no fossil ...
... known from the fossil record before the Miocene ( less than 25 million years ago ) . The families of non- venomous terrestrial snakes , which later gave rise to marine and freshwater representatives ( Fig . 1.1 ) , either have no fossil ...
Sivu 8
... known large marine animals . Nevertheless , the notion that large sea serpents or sea monsters exist doesn't die easily . Those persons believing in their reality point out that : 1 . some large marine animals that were once considered ...
... known large marine animals . Nevertheless , the notion that large sea serpents or sea monsters exist doesn't die easily . Those persons believing in their reality point out that : 1 . some large marine animals that were once considered ...
Sivu 64
... known that some of the lower terrestrial vertebrates are remarkably resistant to snake venoms and it may be that many fish also are . Thus , venom powerful enough to kill resistant species of fish may be much more toxic than required ...
... known that some of the lower terrestrial vertebrates are remarkably resistant to snake venoms and it may be that many fish also are . Thus , venom powerful enough to kill resistant species of fish may be much more toxic than required ...
Sisältö
THE KINDS OF SEA SNAKES | 1 |
NATURAL HISTORY OF SEA SNAKES | 12 |
ADAPTATIONS OF SEA SNAKES | 31 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
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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