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 10
Sivu 15
... swimming movements , but young in the same position in land snakes would not greatly affect locomotion . Gestation time in some marine species is longer than for most terrestrial species . Examples are : Aipysurus laevis 9 months ...
... swimming movements , but young in the same position in land snakes would not greatly affect locomotion . Gestation time in some marine species is longer than for most terrestrial species . Examples are : Aipysurus laevis 9 months ...
Sivu 18
... swimming on the snake's part . Pelamis is unusual in being able to swim either forward or backward equally well , merely by reversing the direction of movement of its lateral undulations . Regardless of which method of capture is ...
... swimming on the snake's part . Pelamis is unusual in being able to swim either forward or backward equally well , merely by reversing the direction of movement of its lateral undulations . Regardless of which method of capture is ...
Sivu 19
... swimming prey . Often fish are ignored even if they pass only a few centimetres from the snake's head . When snakes ... swim backwards and strike . Snakes have oral papillae which are probably taste organs and may aid in detecting ...
... swimming prey . Often fish are ignored even if they pass only a few centimetres from the snake's head . When snakes ... swim backwards and strike . Snakes have oral papillae which are probably taste organs and may aid in detecting ...
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