Oxyuranus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Elapidae
- Genus
- Oxyuranus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Oxyuranus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Taipan
Taipans are snakes of the genus Oxyuranus in the elapid family. They are large, fast-moving, extremely venomous, and endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Three species are recognised, one of which, the coastal taipan, has two subspecies. Taipans are some of the deadliest known snakes.
...Oxyuranus in languages:
- Bokmål
- Taipaner
- Czech
- taipan
- Dutch
- Taipans
- English
- Taipans
- French
- Taïpans
- Portuguese
- Taipans
- Russian
- Тайпаны
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acanthophis
- Aipysurus
- Antaioserpens
- Aspidomorphus
- Austrelaps
- Brachyurophis
- Cacophis
- Cryptophis
- Demansia
- Denisonia
- Drysdalia
- Echiopsis
- Elapognathus
- Emydocephalus
- Ephalophis
- Furina
- Hemiaspis
- Hoplocephalus
- Hydrelaps
- Hydrophis
- Loveridgelaps
- Micropechis
- Neelaps
- Notechis
- Ogmodon
- Oxyuranus
- Parahydrophis
- Parapistocalamus
- Paroplocephalus
- Pseudechis
- Pseudonaja
- Rhinoplocephalus
- Salomonelaps
- Simoselaps
- Suta
- Toxicocalamus
- Tropidechis
- Vermicella