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 32
Sivu 32
... sea snakes avoid the bends ? The density of water is greater than that of air and provides a greater resistance to the movement of animals through it . Methods of propulsion must be different in water than on land . How do sea snakes ...
... sea snakes avoid the bends ? The density of water is greater than that of air and provides a greater resistance to the movement of animals through it . Methods of propulsion must be different in water than on land . How do sea snakes ...
Sivu 34
... salty water , even without salt glands . One of the interesting features of the permeability of sea snake skin is that it does not resist the passage of water equally in both directions . It permits water to move inward more rapidly ...
... salty water , even without salt glands . One of the interesting features of the permeability of sea snake skin is that it does not resist the passage of water equally in both directions . It permits water to move inward more rapidly ...
Sivu 48
... sea water . If the skin is permeable to oxygen and carbon dioxide , then surely it is permeable to nitrogen as well . This assumes that the level of dissolved nitrogen in the blood is higher than in sea water , a likely assumption ...
... sea water . If the skin is permeable to oxygen and carbon dioxide , then surely it is permeable to nitrogen as well . This assumes that the level of dissolved nitrogen in the blood is higher than in sea water , a likely assumption ...
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