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 8
Sivu 9
... elapids , and although there are no known fossils of these two families , they must be younger than their elapid ancestors . Marine tendencies arose independently within several separate terrestrial lineages : once in the line leading ...
... elapids , and although there are no known fossils of these two families , they must be younger than their elapid ancestors . Marine tendencies arose independently within several separate terrestrial lineages : once in the line leading ...
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... elapids : the sea kraits from southeastern Asian elapids and the true sea snakes from Australian elapids . This view is reflect- ed in the allocation of sea kraits to their own family , Laticaudidae , and all of the true sea snakes to a ...
... elapids : the sea kraits from southeastern Asian elapids and the true sea snakes from Australian elapids . This view is reflect- ed in the allocation of sea kraits to their own family , Laticaudidae , and all of the true sea snakes to a ...
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... elapids , that require only 12-31 months , depending on the species , to reach sexual maturity . By contrast , age of sexual maturation of some other sea snakes fall within the range for Australian elapids e.g. Enhydrina schistosa : 1.5 ...
... elapids , that require only 12-31 months , depending on the species , to reach sexual maturity . By contrast , age of sexual maturation of some other sea snakes fall within the range for Australian elapids e.g. Enhydrina schistosa : 1.5 ...
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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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