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    Taipan (redirect from Oxyuranus)
    Taipans are snakes of the genus Oxyuranus in the elapid family. They are large, fast-moving, highly venomous, and endemic to Australia and New Guinea...
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    species then known as Oxyuranus scutellatus (taipan) and Parademansia microlepidota, that they belonged in a single genus. Oxyuranus (1923), the more senior...
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    The coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), or common taipan, is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. Described by Wilhelm Peters...
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  • taipan (Elapidae: Oxyuranus) from central Australia" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1422: 45–58. Retrieved 2008-06-19. Top 10 new species of 2008: Oxyuranus temporalis. Archived...
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    (Oxyuranus microlepidotus). Not, as is popularised, any of the sea snakes." connectedbypets.com. Retrieved October 14, 2013. Though many (Oxyuranus microlepidotus)...
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    genera of venomous land snakes found in Australasia, such as the taipans (Oxyuranus), tiger snakes (Notechis), brown snakes (Pseudonaja) and death adders...
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  • Demansia papuensis Demansia torquata Orange-naped snake, Furina ornata Oxyuranus scutellatus King brown snake, Pseudechis australis Spotted brown snake...
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    Venoumous Snakes: the Australian Genus Oxyuranus. "..the number of mouse LD50 doses per bite is much higher for Oxyuranus microlepidotus (218,000 mice)...than...
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    ventilation are required for supportive therapy. The Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus) is a large, highly venomous Australian elapid...
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  • snake (Oxyuranus scutellatus). Walker FJ, Owen WG, Esmon CT (March 1980). "Characterization of the prothrombin activator from the venom of Oxyuranus scutellatus...
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  • and neurotoxin that was isolated from the venom of the coastal taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus or also known as the common taipan. Taipoxin like many other...
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    (Dendroaspis spp.), including the black mamba (D. polylepis) Taipans (Oxyuranus) Tiger snakes (Notechis spp.) Vipers, for example Bushmasters (Lachesis...
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    three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus, and Pseudechis)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34 (1): 1–14...
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    water python (Liasis fuscus), spotted mulga snake, or coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) where they co-occur. King brown snakes occur in all states...
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    Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, western Malaysia, the Philippines Oxyuranus Kinghorn, 1923 3 2 taipans Australia, New Guinea Parahydrophis Burger...
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  • and the third most venomous snake overall, behind the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus, LD50=0.025 mg/kg) and the eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja...
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    the world's second-most venomous land snake after the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), based on its LD50 value (subcutaneous) in mice. The main...
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    three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus and Pseudechis)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34 (1):...
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    apparatus in "Palatine dragging" snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus)". Journal of Morphology. 271 (1): 73–85. doi:10.1002/jmor.10782. ISSN 0362-2525...
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  • (Naja sumatrana) and three times less toxic than that of the taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus). A postsynaptic neurotoxin isolated has been given the name...
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    species such as death adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) and the taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), plus spiders including the redback (Latrodectus hasselti)...
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  • American Corn snakes (Elaphe guttata guttata) and Australian Taipans (Oxyuranus scutellatus), both free-living and captive. Necropsy examinations of expired...
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    three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus and Pseudechis)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34 (1):...
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    bungarra in some aboriginal languages Black-headed python Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) – also known as western taipan and fierce snake Mulga...
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    mairii resembles some Australian venomous snakes, the taipans (genus Oxyuranus) and the rough-scaled snake (Tropidechis carinatus).[citation needed]...
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  • Oxyrhopus trigeminus Oxyrhopus vanidicus Oxyuranus Oxyuranus microlepidotus Oxyuranus scutellatus Oxyuranus temporalis Pantherophis Pantherophis alleghaniensis...
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  • Snake". Animal Species. Australian Museum. Retrieved 26 August 2019. "Oxyuranus scutellatus – General Details". Clinical Toxinology Resource. University...
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    genus Disteira and merged Astrotia into it, although stokesii lacks the Oxyuranus pattern of venom gland muscle which typifies Disteira, and differs from...
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    (Brisbane, Australia) 1. Western or Inland Taipan aka Fierce Snake aka Oxyuranus microlepidotus ("at the very back of the Outback" - location undisclosed...
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    three species of Australia's venomous snakes during 1878–1879, including Oxyuranus microlepidotus, commonly known as the inland taipan or fierce snake, which...
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