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 36
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... fish 60 ( 100 ) total Mudbanks and mangroves Crabs and small fish 40 ( 60 ) total Littoral or supra - littoral zones of mangroves and mangrove - lined creeks Crabs LATICAUDIDAE Laticauda colubrina Laticauda laticaudata 75-128 s - v ...
... fish 60 ( 100 ) total Mudbanks and mangroves Crabs and small fish 40 ( 60 ) total Littoral or supra - littoral zones of mangroves and mangrove - lined creeks Crabs LATICAUDIDAE Laticauda colubrina Laticauda laticaudata 75-128 s - v ...
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... fish deposit them . The fish guard their eggs and sometimes are able to prevent the snakes from getting them . Regardless of the method of capture , most sea snakes swallow prey head - first . Were it swallowed tail - first , the sharp ...
... fish deposit them . The fish guard their eggs and sometimes are able to prevent the snakes from getting them . Regardless of the method of capture , most sea snakes swallow prey head - first . Were it swallowed tail - first , the sharp ...
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... fish near a snake's head can initiate a strike , even if the tongue has not contacted it . Also , vibration of an inert object ( such as a pair of forceps ) near a Pelamis platurus can stimulate it to turn toward the source of the ...
... fish near a snake's head can initiate a strike , even if the tongue has not contacted it . Also , vibration of an inert object ( such as a pair of forceps ) near a Pelamis platurus can stimulate it to turn toward the source of the ...
Sisältö
PREFACE | 1 |
The Kinds of Sea Snakes 5 Origin and Evolution of Sea Snakes | 8 |
Regional Distributions | 18 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
14 muita osia ei näytetty
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
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