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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Harold Heatwole. Figure 7.2 The sublingual salt gland of Pelamis platurus . The gland empties into the tongue ... glands scattered over the tongue , and the marine iguana -a lizard that dives in the sea off the Galapagos Islands and eats ...
Harold Heatwole. Figure 7.2 The sublingual salt gland of Pelamis platurus . The gland empties into the tongue ... glands scattered over the tongue , and the marine iguana -a lizard that dives in the sea off the Galapagos Islands and eats ...
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... salt glands . One of the interesting features of the permeability of sea snake skin is that it does not resist the ... salt inwards . The body fluids , although retaining water , would be swamped with salt and the concentration would ...
... salt glands . One of the interesting features of the permeability of sea snake skin is that it does not resist the ... salt inwards . The body fluids , although retaining water , would be swamped with salt and the concentration would ...
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... SALT WATER Dunson , WA ( 1968 ) Salt gland secretion in the pelagic sea snake Pelamis . American Journal of Physiology ... glands in the marine file snake and the true sea snakes , Journal of Comparative Physiology 86 : 193–208 . Dunson ...
... SALT WATER Dunson , WA ( 1968 ) Salt gland secretion in the pelagic sea snake Pelamis . American Journal of Physiology ... glands in the marine file snake and the true sea snakes , Journal of Comparative Physiology 86 : 193–208 . Dunson ...
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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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