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Fierce Snake Oxyuranus microlepidotus🐍

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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Inland taipan

Oxyuranus microlepidotus (Mccoy, 1879)

내륙타이판(inland taipan, 학명: Oxyuranus microlepidotus 옥시우라누스 미크롤레피도투스[*])은 타이판속에 딸린 뱀의 한 종으로, 매우 무시무시한 독을 가진 독사이다. 호주 대륙의 중동부 스텝 기후 지역에 사는 호주 고유종이다. 방울뱀의 200배에서 400배에 다르는 정도의 치명성을 가진 맹독사이다.

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

Maximum lifespan
18 yearsmaximum recorded
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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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