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Report on occurrence of Yellow Sea Snake Hydrophis spiralis off Kerala coast [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Sea snakes play an important role in the marine food web and studies on their diversity and distribution are very limited in India. Globally, 70 species of sea snakes have been reported under the family Elapidae which is divided into two subfamilies
Bose, John   +6 more
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Landscape changes influence the reproductive behaviour of a key ‘capital breeder’ snake (Boa constrictor occidentalis) in the Gran Chaco region, Argentina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Many wild reptile species are threatened by habitat loss. However, the way in which changes in landscape patterns influence intraspecific ecological processes is not completely understood.
Cardozo Milanesio, Gabriela Alejandra   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Sexual dimorphism in the South American water snake Helicops polylepis (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Sexual selection, fecundity selection and ecological divergence have been the main explanations proposed for the origin and maintenance of sexual dimorphism.
Camargo, Isla Carol Marialva   +11 more
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Turbinal bones are still one of the last frontiers of the tetrapod skull: hypotheses, challenges and perspectives

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 99, Issue 6, Page 2304-2337, December 2024.
ABSTRACT Turbinals are bony or cartilaginous structures that are present in the nasal cavity of most tetrapods. They are involved in key functions such as olfaction, heat, and moisture conservation, as well as protection of the respiratory tract. Despite recent studies that challenged long‐standing hypotheses about their physiological and genomic ...
Quentin Martinez   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marine Fisheries Information Service No.226 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Marine Fisheries Information Service, Technical and Extension ...
CMFRI, Kochi
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The evolution of scale sensilla in the transition from land to sea in elapid snakes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Scale sensilla are small tactile mechanosensory organs located on the head scales of many squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes). In sea snakes and sea kraits (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae), these scale organs are presumptive scale sensilla that purportedly ...
Crowe-Riddell, J.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

A New Caledonian Glasshouse in Paris [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This chapter discusses the renovation of the public glasshouses (Les Grandes Serres) at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN) and particularly the creation of a glasshouse presenting the rich and unique flora of New Caledonia, a French ...
Delmas, Maite, Joly, Eric, Larpin, Denis
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Shape and size variation in elapid snake fangs, and the effects of phylogeny and diet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Published online: 9 October 2023Recent studies have found correlations between the shape of snake teeth/fangs and diet. These studies were done at a very broad phylogenetic scale, making it desirable to test if correlations are still detectable at a ...
Crowe-Riddell, J.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

東アジア産エラブウミヘビ亜科とウミヘビ亜科を対象とした集団遺伝学的解析と分類に関する研究 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
学位論文博士(学術)http://purl.org/coar/resource_type ...
Tandavanitj, Nontivich   +1 more
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Molecular phylogeny of sea snakes reveals a rapidly diverged adaptive radiation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Evolutionary relationships within and between the marine hydrophiine sea snake groups have been inferred primarily using morphological characters, and two major groups traditionally are recognized. The Aipysurus group comprises nine species in two genera,
Keogh, J Scott, Lukoschek, Vimoksalehi
core   +1 more source

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