Sea SnakesKrieger Publishing Company, 1999 - 148 sivua This text describes the varieties and distribution of sea snakes, what they eat and what eats them, how they reproduce and grow, and how they cope with excess salt and scarcity of freshwater. It also discusses how they adjust to diving at depth, and describes the nature of their venom. |
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Tulokset 1 - 3 kokonaismäärästä 26
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... cent to 95.5 per cent . That is , of the mature eggs pro- duced , 4.5 per cent to 20 per cent of them are infertile and the ener- gy invested into their production is wasted . The proportion of breeding females that had at least one ...
... cent to 95.5 per cent . That is , of the mature eggs pro- duced , 4.5 per cent to 20 per cent of them are infertile and the ener- gy invested into their production is wasted . The proportion of breeding females that had at least one ...
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... cent to slightly over 30 per cent ( Table 8.1 ) . A number of species of hydrophiids and laticaudids lie toward the upper end of this range or exceed it by several per cent . While on average their blood is slightly richer than that of ...
... cent to slightly over 30 per cent ( Table 8.1 ) . A number of species of hydrophiids and laticaudids lie toward the upper end of this range or exceed it by several per cent . While on average their blood is slightly richer than that of ...
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... cent ) or because of treading upon snakes in the murky water ( 36 per cent ) . However , reliable statistics on the incidence of sea snake bite and of the resulting fatalities were difficult to assemble . Few official records are kept ...
... cent ) or because of treading upon snakes in the murky water ( 36 per cent ) . However , reliable statistics on the incidence of sea snake bite and of the resulting fatalities were difficult to assemble . Few official records are kept ...
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PREFACE | 1 |
The Kinds of Sea Snakes 5 Origin and Evolution of Sea Snakes | 8 |
Regional Distributions | 18 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
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Acalyptophis peronii Acrochordus granulatus Aipysurus duboisii Aipysurus eydouxii animals Astrotia stokesii Australia Barrier Reef Bitia hydroides blood body breathing cavum cent Cerberus rynchops clutch coast Cogger colubrid coral reefs Disteira diving eels eggs elapids Emydocephalus annulatus Enhydrina schistosa envenomation enzymes fang females Figure file snakes fish foraging Fordonia leucobalia fresh water freshwater genera Glen Burns Guinea habitat Harold Voris Heatwole homalopsines Hydrophis coggeri Hydrophis ornatus Indonesia Islands Kerilia land snakes Lapemis curtus Laticauda colubrina Laticauda semifasciata laticaudids Malaysia mangrove marine snakes metres muscle Myotoxins natricines Nerodia neurotoxins northern Australia occur olive sea snake oxygen Pelamis platurus Philippines Photograph courtesy Plate populations predators prey reptiles respiration respiratory saccular lung sea kraits sea snake Aipysurus sea snake bite sea snake venom skin snake Aipysurus laevis species of hydrophiids species of marine species of sea Sri Lanka submergence surface swallowing terrestrial snakes Thalassophina toxic toxins true sea snakes Zimmerman