🐍Coastal taipan
太攀蛇（學名：Oxyuranus scutellatus），又名普通太攀蛇或海岸太攀蛇。是眼鏡蛇科、太攀蛇屬爬蟲類，亦為澳大利亞體型最長的毒蛇和澳大利亞最大的毒蛇。分佈於澳大利亞東部及北部沿岸一帶，另也出沒於新幾內亞的島嶼。根據數個毒理學報告的實驗白鼠 LD50 皮下注射數據，此物種的毒性在陸棲毒蛇中位列第三（僅次於最毒的陸棲蛇內陸太攀蛇和第二毒的陸棲蛇東部擬眼鏡蛇）。這種太攀蛇的蛇咬也造成過100%的臨床致死率。其轄下共有兩個已確認亞種。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- 8.11 kg
- Body length
- 3.36 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 16 years
Everything we know about the Coastal taipan
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass8.11 kgrecord 4.67 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length3.36 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan16 yearsrecord 16 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation73 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Activity cycleDiurnalReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l8.1 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 Coastal taipan yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyElapidae
- ›genusOxyuranus
- ›speciesOxyuranus scutellatus
- 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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