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 11
Sivu 35
... remains under water depends in part on what it is doing . A sleeping or resting snake will remain longer than one that is actively foraging for food . How do sea snakes achieve such long times at the bottom ? Part of the answer lies in ...
... remains under water depends in part on what it is doing . A sleeping or resting snake will remain longer than one that is actively foraging for food . How do sea snakes achieve such long times at the bottom ? Part of the answer lies in ...
Sivu 37
... remain under water for periods in excess of their normal submergence . Fur- thermore , observations of the breathing of sea snakes in their natural habitat indicate that they usually take from one to three breaths quickly at the surface ...
... remain under water for periods in excess of their normal submergence . Fur- thermore , observations of the breathing of sea snakes in their natural habitat indicate that they usually take from one to three breaths quickly at the surface ...
Sivu 59
... remain as a relic of former hind limbs . Many present - day lizards of several families show various degrees of limblessness , ranging from those that have their limbs only slightly reduced , through those that have tiny , nearly ...
... remain as a relic of former hind limbs . Many present - day lizards of several families show various degrees of limblessness , ranging from those that have their limbs only slightly reduced , through those that have tiny , nearly ...
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