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. To understand salt and water balance in sea snakes , a simple phys- ical model can be considered . If two solutions of salt are separated by a membrane that allows the passage of water but not of salt then water will ...
Harold Heatwole. To understand salt and water balance in sea snakes , a simple phys- ical model can be considered . If two solutions of salt are separated by a membrane that allows the passage of water but not of salt then water will ...
Sivu 70
... salty water , even without salt glands . One of the interesting features of the permeability of sea snake skin is that it does not resist the passage of water equally in both directions . It permits water to move inward more rapidly ...
... salty water , even without salt glands . One of the interesting features of the permeability of sea snake skin is that it does not resist the passage of water equally in both directions . It permits water to move inward more rapidly ...
Sivu 71
... drink sea water and suffer accordingly , whereas the races from saline habitats do not drink sea water . This behavioural divergence may reflect physiological differ- ences in that freshwater races may become thirstier because of a ...
... drink sea water and suffer accordingly , whereas the races from saline habitats do not drink sea water . This behavioural divergence may reflect physiological differ- ences in that freshwater races may become thirstier because of a ...
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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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