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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... egg shell no longer forms . The acrochordids , homalopsines , Nerodia species and the hydrophiids are all viviparous and the laticaudids are egg - layers . Marine snakes carry their eggs or young further forward in the body than do ...
... egg shell no longer forms . The acrochordids , homalopsines , Nerodia species and the hydrophiids are all viviparous and the laticaudids are egg - layers . Marine snakes carry their eggs or young further forward in the body than do ...
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... eggs but others lay as many as 45 . Richard Shine from Sydney University recorded where eggs or embryos were located in the bodies of gravid snakes and found that sea snakes carried their young further forward than did land snakes . The ...
... eggs but others lay as many as 45 . Richard Shine from Sydney University recorded where eggs or embryos were located in the bodies of gravid snakes and found that sea snakes carried their young further forward than did land snakes . The ...
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... eggs in the oviduct . However , this estimate of clutch size does not take into account the number of those eggs that are infertile . Fertility is the number of offspring that are produced alive . In the ten species of sea snakes for ...
... eggs in the oviduct . However , this estimate of clutch size does not take into account the number of those eggs that are infertile . Fertility is the number of offspring that are produced alive . In the ten species of sea snakes for ...
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PREFACE | 1 |
The Kinds of Sea Snakes 5 Origin and Evolution of Sea Snakes | 8 |
Regional Distributions | 18 |
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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