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    Species Accepted

    Oxyuranus scutellatus (Peters, 1867)

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      16 results
      Coastal taipan
      Common Taipan English
      Kysttaipan Norwegian Bokmål
      New Guinea Taipan
      Papuan taipan
      Taipan German
      Taipan comune Italian
      Taipan costiero Italian
      Taipan delle coste Italian
      Taïpan côtier French

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      31 results
      Shine, Richard; Claire Goiran, Catherine Shilton, Shai Meiri, Gregory P Brown. (2019). The life aquatic: an association between habitat type and skin thickness in snakes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Blz136.
      Somaweera, R. (2009). Snakes of Darwin. Poster, University of Sydney.
      Cogger, H. G. (2014). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, Xxx + 1033 Pp.
      Himmel, Torsten K. D. (2008). Die Frau, die den Taipan fand: Konkordia Amalie Dietrich (1821 - 1891), deutsche Südsee- und Australienforscherin aus Sachsen und Entdeckerin des Taipans (Oxyuranus scutellatus (Peters, 1867)). Sekretär 8 (1):
      Mirtschin, P., Rasmussen, A. R., & Weinstein, S. A. (2017). Australia’s Dangerous snakes. CSIRO Publishing, 424 Pp.
      Busack, Stephen D. (2014). Oxyuranus scutellatus (taipan) homing. Herpetological Review 45 (2): 340.
      Hoser, R. (2009). Eight new taxa in the genera Pseudonaja Gunther 1858, Oxyuranus Kinghorn 1923, and Panacedechis Wells and Wellington 1985 (Serpentes:Elapidae). Australasian J. Herpetol. 4: 1-27.
      Hoser, R. (2002). An overview of the taipans, genus (Oxyuranus) (Serpentes: Elapidae), including the description of a new subspecies. Crocodilian - J. Vic. Assoc. Amat. Herpetol. 3:43-50.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
      Swan, G., Sadlier, R., & Shea, G. (2017). A field guide to reptiles of New South Wales. Reed New Holland, 328 Pp.

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