🐍Inland taipan
La taipán del interior, serpiente de escamas pequeñas, o serpiente taipán (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) es una especie de serpiente de la familia Elapidae nativa de Australia y la serpiente terrestre más venenosa del mundo. Esta serpiente aunque extremadamente venenosa es tímida y dócil.[cita requerida] Estudios recientes indican que es la serpiente con el veneno mas letal del mundo.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- 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
Everything we know about the Inland taipan
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.29 kgmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length2.5 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan18 yearsmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l2.3 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyElapidae
- ›genusOxyuranus
- ›speciesOxyuranus microlepidotus
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusOxyuranus
All 12 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- genusOxyuranus
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