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. |
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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 86
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... sea snakes evolved was a very late development , not 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 ...
... sea snakes evolved was a very late development , not 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 ...
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... marine species compared to terrestrial ones , but total reproductive effort is also less . Marine snakes reduce the number of young carried , and also have them placed further forward in the body than do land snakes . This is probably a ...
... marine species compared to terrestrial ones , but total reproductive effort is also less . Marine snakes reduce the number of young carried , and also have them placed further forward in the body than do land snakes . This is probably a ...
Sivu 33
... sea snakes , they would have to produce urine that was more concentrated in salts than their body fluids , that is to get rid of relatively more salt than of water . Unlike the mammalian kidney , the kidneys of reptiles ( including sea ...
... sea snakes , they would have to produce urine that was more concentrated in salts than their body fluids , that is to get rid of relatively more salt than of water . Unlike the mammalian kidney , the kidneys of reptiles ( including sea ...
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THE KINDS OF SEA SNAKES | 1 |
NATURAL HISTORY OF SEA SNAKES | 12 |
ADAPTATIONS OF SEA SNAKES | 31 |
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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