Antipredator tactics of amphibious sea-snakes (Serpentes, Laticaudidae)

Ethology

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 533-542

  Shine, Richard ^a   Bonnet, Xavier ^a   Cogger, Harold G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MOBILITY; SNAKE; SURVIVAL;

NEW CALEDONIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; COLUBRINA; CRYPSIS; HYDROPHIINAE; LATICAUDA; LATICAUDA COLUBRINA; LATICAUDA LATICAUDATA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0037970427     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2003.00895.x     Document Type: Article

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