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 24
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... olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) with its tongue extended , sensing its olfactory environment . Note that , unlike land snakes that pro- trude the entire tongue , sea snakes only protrude the forked tips of the tongue . ( Photograph ...
... olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) with its tongue extended , sensing its olfactory environment . Note that , unlike land snakes that pro- trude the entire tongue , sea snakes only protrude the forked tips of the tongue . ( Photograph ...
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... olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) pictured here , have enlarged ventral scales , nearly as large as those of ter- restrial snakes . ( Photograph by the author ) Plate 24 The lung of an olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) showing the ...
... olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) pictured here , have enlarged ventral scales , nearly as large as those of ter- restrial snakes . ( Photograph by the author ) Plate 24 The lung of an olive sea snake ( Aipysurus laevis ) showing the ...
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... sea snake aggression . Herpetofauna 18 : 11–12 . Zimmerman , SE and Heatwole , H ( 1987 ) Olive sea snake venom , in Toxic Plants & Animals , a Guide for Australia , ( ed Covacevich , J , Davie , P and Pearn , J ) , Queensland Museum ...
... sea snake aggression . Herpetofauna 18 : 11–12 . Zimmerman , SE and Heatwole , H ( 1987 ) Olive sea snake venom , in Toxic Plants & Animals , a Guide for Australia , ( ed Covacevich , J , Davie , P and Pearn , J ) , Queensland Museum ...
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
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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