Tracheal lung
The tracheal lung is an organ of some snakes and sneaking amphibians , which is located in the front body, on the rear part of the windpipe and gives the reptiles an additional breathing opportunity. When devouring a large prey, the actual lungs can become compressed. The tracheal lung then partially takes over its function and replaces the lack of capacity for oxygen uptake. Large tracheal lungs have, for example, the snail- eating snails (Dipsadinae), the water snakes (Homalopsidae), as well as the creeping amphibian families Ichthyophiidae , Typhlonectidae and Uraeotyphlidae .
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- Chris Mattison: Encyclopedia of Snakes. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8354-0360-4 , pp. 49-50.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Westheide , Reinhard Rieger : Special Zoology. Part 2: vertebrates or skulls. Spectrum - Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg et al. 2004, ISBN 3-8274-0307-3 , p. 324.