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Oxyuranus scutellatus (scutellatus)

Synonyms: Oxyuranus scutellatus adelynhoserae; Oxyuranus scutellatus andrewwilsoni; Pseudechis scutellatus; Pseudechis wilesmithii

Wikipedia Abstract

The coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), or common taipan, is a species of large, highly venomous snake of the family Elapidae. It is native to the coastal regions of northern and eastern Australia and the island of New Guinea. According to most toxicological studies, this species is the third-most venomous land snake in the world based on its murine LD50.
View Wikipedia Record: Oxyuranus scutellatus

Infraspecies

Oxyuranus scutellatus canni (Papua taipan) (Attributes)
Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus (Australian taipan) (Attributes)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  17.882 lbs (8.111 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  23 grams
Egg Length [1]  2.244 inches (57 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.181 inches (30 mm)
Gestation [1]  69 days
Litter Size [2]  11
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  16 years
Venomous [4]  Yes
Female Maturity [1]  9 months 24 days
Male Maturity [1]  8 months 18 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia
Wasur-Rawa Biru National Park 605464 Papua, Indonesia  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cryptosporidium muris[5]
Cryptosporidium serpentis[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Ecology of Highly Venomous Snakes: the Australian Genus Oxyuranus (Elapidae), RICHARD SHINE AND JEANETTE COVACEVICH, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 60-69, 1983
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Venomous snakes and antivenoms search interface, World Health Organization
♦ 5Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0