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 4
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... repre- sent surfacing for a breath . The snake slowly foraged in crevices in the coral but swam rapidly over open sand . ( From Burns and Heatwole , 1998 ) Figure 3.12 Home ranges of the olive sea snake (. 42 SEA SNAKES.
... repre- sent surfacing for a breath . The snake slowly foraged in crevices in the coral but swam rapidly over open sand . ( From Burns and Heatwole , 1998 ) Figure 3.12 Home ranges of the olive sea snake (. 42 SEA SNAKES.
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... home range of an ultrasonically tracked adult female . Numbers indicate locations of a snake over succes- sive days ... ranges of seven ultrasonically tracked adults ( individuals A - G ) . Note that the home ranges of dif- ferent ...
... home range of an ultrasonically tracked adult female . Numbers indicate locations of a snake over succes- sive days ... ranges of seven ultrasonically tracked adults ( individuals A - G ) . Note that the home ranges of dif- ferent ...
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... home range , that is a definite area to which they confine their activities . The home ranges of individual snakes varied from 0.15 to 0.18 hectares ( Figure 3.12 ) and thus were smaller than the home ranges of many species of land ...
... home range , that is a definite area to which they confine their activities . The home ranges of individual snakes varied from 0.15 to 0.18 hectares ( Figure 3.12 ) and thus were smaller than the home ranges of many species of land ...
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PREFACE | 1 |
The Kinds of Sea Snakes 5 Origin and Evolution of Sea Snakes | 8 |
Regional Distributions | 18 |
Tekijänoikeudet | |
14 muita osia ei näytetty
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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