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Fierce Snake Oxyuranus microlepidotus🐍

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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Inland taipan

Oxyuranus microlepidotus (Mccoy, 1879)

Континентален тайпан (Oxyuranus mikrolepidotus) е змия от сем. Аспидови. Съществуват също централен тайпан (Ox. Temporalis) и обикновен тайпан (Ox. Scutellatus S.), който има два подвида: новогвинейски (папуаски) тайпан (Ox. S. Canni) и северозападен тайпан (Ox. S. Barringeri). Любопитно е, че някои зоолози причисляват тайпаните към морските змии (Hydrophiidae), с които са много сходни анатомически. Синоними: дребнолюспест тайпан, жестока змия, свирепа змия, парадеменсия.

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Photos
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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/27th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
2.29 kg
Body length
2.5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
18 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Inland taipan

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
2.29 kgmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
2.5 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
18 yearsmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
Yes
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
2.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Inland taipan yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyElapidae
  5. ›genusOxyuranus
  6. ›speciesOxyuranus microlepidotus
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusOxyuranus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. genusOxyuranus
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In other languages
內陸太攀蛇 (zh), Tajpan pustynny (pl), Taïpan du désert (fr), Oxyuranus microlepidotus (es), kispikkelyű tajpán (hu), Inlandtaipan (de) … and 20 more languages
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