Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

fosetas termorreceptoras

English translation:

thermoreceptive pits

Added to glossary by EDLING (X)
Feb 14, 2003 09:49
21 yrs ago
Spanish term

fosetas termorreceptoras

Spanish to English Science
Como en todas las especies de Corallus, son muy visibles
las grandes fosetas termorreceptoras, tanto en las
escamas labiales inferiores como en las superiores, que
ayudan al animal a localizar a sus presas.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 thermoreceptive pits
3 thermal receiving chambers / cavities

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thermoreceptive pits

Anatomy of Thermoreceptive Pits - [ Traduzca esta página ]
Home. Species. Structure. Location. Anatomy. Physiology. Sensitivity-Nervous.
Sensitivity-Receptors. Localization. Behavioral Ecology. Links. Literature
Cited. ...
www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/animalphysiology/ websites/2001/Escaravage/Anatomy.htm - 8k - En caché - Páginas similares

Reptiles: Vipers and pit vipers - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... Park Service); Prairie Rattlesnake - White Sands, New Mexico (National
Park Service); Thermoreceptive Pits; Contrasting Mating Systems ...
www.herper.com/snakes/vipers.html - 10k - En caché - Páginas similares

Viper's - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... The Old World vipers of the Viperinae are considered somewhat more primitive than
the Crotalinae, or pit vipers, which possess thermoreceptive pits between the ...
www.burmese.freeuk.com/Snakes/viper.htm - 31k - En caché - Páginas similares

Houston Zoo - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... The slender head and neck are a shiny jet black. It lacks the labial
(facial) thermoreceptive pits found in most boas and pythons. ...
www.houstonzoo.org/reptiles/pages/blkhdpyt.htm - 4k - En caché - Páginas similares

herpetofauna4 - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... heads with huge eyes. They possess thermoreceptive pits on their lips,
which serve to detect endothermic prey. All members of the ...
www.kingsnake.com/westindian/herpetofauna4.html - 38k - En caché - Páginas similares

[PDF]Venomous Reptiles
Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
... 8 The thermoreceptive pits are located between the eyes and the nostrils
and are exquisitely sensitive to infrared radiation, Page 5. ...
www.storysmith.net/Articles/Snake bite.pdf
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agree patrick32 : right on!!
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thermal receiving chambers / cavities

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