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 29
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... skins . Just before shedding is due the skin loosens and an oily secretion forms between the old and new layers , including the scale over the eye . Accordingly , the snake becomes duller in colour and the eye appears cloudy ( Plate 21 ) ...
... skins . Just before shedding is due the skin loosens and an oily secretion forms between the old and new layers , including the scale over the eye . Accordingly , the snake becomes duller in colour and the eye appears cloudy ( Plate 21 ) ...
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... skin than do other genera of hydrophiids or than do the laticaudids , acrochordids and homalopsines . Cerberus rynchops inhabits mangrove swamps and it exchanges relatively small amounts of oxygen through the skin ( Table 8.3 ) . The ...
... skin than do other genera of hydrophiids or than do the laticaudids , acrochordids and homalopsines . Cerberus rynchops inhabits mangrove swamps and it exchanges relatively small amounts of oxygen through the skin ( Table 8.3 ) . The ...
Sivu 93
... skin . The skin is per- meable to gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide ( see pages 84 , 85 ) , and consequently would probably also be permeable to nitrogen . However , to lose nitrogen through the skin it must be at a higher level ...
... skin . The skin is per- meable to gases such as oxygen and carbon dioxide ( see pages 84 , 85 ) , and consequently would probably also be permeable to nitrogen . However , to lose nitrogen through the skin it must be at a higher level ...
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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