Fierce Snake Oxyuranus microlepidotus🐍

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SpeciesElapidae
Reptiles

🐍Inland taipan

Oxyuranus microlepidotus (Mccoy, 1879)

Oxyuranus microlepidotus, Elapidae familyasından doğu Avustralya'nın içbölgesinde yaşayan zehirli yılan türü. En ölümcülü olmamasına rağmen dünyada karada yaşayan yılanlar arasında en güçlü zehire sahip olanıdır. Çok utangaç ve münzevidir. Mevsimine bağlı olarak koyu kahverengiden kahverengimsi açık yeşile kadar değişkenlik gösterir. Çoğunlukla kemirgenler, küçük memeliler ve kuşlarla beslenir.

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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.

Where it sits

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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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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