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 10
Sivu 74
... fang and the exit hole at the tip . Note the dental groove on the anterior face of the fang marking the closure of the venom canal . ( From Gopalakrishnakone 1994 ) Plate 26 ( above ) The author holding a recently captured female olive ...
... fang and the exit hole at the tip . Note the dental groove on the anterior face of the fang marking the closure of the venom canal . ( From Gopalakrishnakone 1994 ) Plate 26 ( above ) The author holding a recently captured female olive ...
Sivu 97
... fangs that rotate only sightly during biting . Stokes ' sea snake ( Astrotia stokesii ) has a deeply grooved fang ... fangs are hidden in a fleshy sheath that easily flattens out of the way under the pressure of biting . The marine ...
... fangs that rotate only sightly during biting . Stokes ' sea snake ( Astrotia stokesii ) has a deeply grooved fang ... fangs are hidden in a fleshy sheath that easily flattens out of the way under the pressure of biting . The marine ...
Sivu 120
... fangs than those that eat smaller items . The species that eat fish eggs have small fangs ; in Emydocephalus species they are so small as to be hardly functional . Most of the sea snakes for which data are available have fangs of less ...
... fangs than those that eat smaller items . The species that eat fish eggs have small fangs ; in Emydocephalus species they are so small as to be hardly functional . Most of the sea snakes for which data are available have fangs of less ...
Sisältö
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