Aquatic and terrestrial locomotor speeds of amphibious sea-snakes (Serpentes, Laticaudidae)

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-268

  Shine, Richard ^a   Cogger, Harold G ^a   Reed, Robert R ^a,b   Shetty, Sohan ^a   Bonnet, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crawling; Laticauda; Sea krait; Swimming; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; LOCOMOTION; SNAKE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; EMYDOCEPHALUS; EMYDOCEPHALUS ANNULATUS; HYDROPHIINAE; LATICAUDA; LATICAUDIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 0037337843     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952836902003242     Document Type: Article

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