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- W232056948 abstract "Body elongation and limblessness have evolved significantly within Tetrapoda, typically associated with aquatic, fossorial, crevice dwelling, or grass-swimming lifestyles. Some lineages of secondarily elongate vertebrates (for example, limbless skinks) have solved the concomitant problem of reduction in size of the feeding apparatus by eating many tiny items, whereas others (for example, some caecilians) shear ingestible chunks out of large prey. Many advanced snakes achieved a third solution by radically restructuring their heads and feeding infrequently on large items; perhaps not coincidentally. Among limbless squamate reptiles, only Serpentes has achieved substantial adaptive radiation and high species richness. More than 2,500 species of living snakes inhabit most temperate and tropical land masses, and they often are prominent predators in terrestrial, arboreal, fossorial, aquatic, and even marine faunas. Snakes eat prey as different as onycophorans, fish eggs, centipedes, cormorants, and porcupines; many species commonly consume individual items weighing 20% of their own mass, and some venomous species occasionally subdue and eat prey that exceed their own mass by as much as 50%. This chapter first briefly surveys snake diversity and then examines in detail the functional and morphological aspects of capturing, swallowing, and processing prey that generally characterize relatively derived subgroups. It only touches on sensory aspects of feeding." @default.
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- W232056948 title "Feeding in Snakes" @default.
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