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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... HABITAT Marine snakes occupy a great diversity of habitats . Some species are eurytopic , that is , they occupy a wide range of habitats and occur at a variety of depths and in situations ranging from muddy , turbid water to the clear ...
... HABITAT Marine snakes occupy a great diversity of habitats . Some species are eurytopic , that is , they occupy a wide range of habitats and occur at a variety of depths and in situations ranging from muddy , turbid water to the clear ...
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... habitat of Australian marine snakes appears in Table 2.1 . A major difference in habitat between the sea kraits ( laticaudids ) and true sea snakes ( hydrophiids ) is the degree of restriction to aquat- ic habitats . Hydrophiids are ...
... habitat of Australian marine snakes appears in Table 2.1 . A major difference in habitat between the sea kraits ( laticaudids ) and true sea snakes ( hydrophiids ) is the degree of restriction to aquat- ic habitats . Hydrophiids are ...
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... habitat where the rival may have a competitive advantage . Another hypothesis is that previous selection for characteristics reducing competition resulted in evolution of different habitat preferences . Aipysurus eydouxii ...
... habitat where the rival may have a competitive advantage . Another hypothesis is that previous selection for characteristics reducing competition resulted in evolution of different habitat preferences . Aipysurus eydouxii ...
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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