Inland taipan and at Animal World & Snake Farm Zoo in Texas. In Europe inland taipans are held in Sweden at the Stockholm Skansen zoo and Goteborg Universeum. in the UK at the London Zoo. Amateur zoo listings also report the snake in "tropicarium park" Jesolo Italy, in "Gifttierhaus" Eimsheim, "Welt der Gifte" Greifswald and "TerraZoo" Rheinberg Germany, in "Lausanne vivarium" Lausanne Switzerland, in Randers Tropical Zoo Denmark, in Plzeň Zoo Czech Republic and in "Reptilienzoo Nockalm" Patergassen Austria. In New South Wales, it is only legal to privately own an inland taipan with the highest venomous class reptile licence. The inland
Coastal taipan is exceeded in length among venomous snakes only by the Asiatic king cobra, African black mamba, and genus "Lachesis" (bushmasters) of the American neotropics. The head of the coastal taipan is long and narrow like that of the African black mamba ("Dendroaspis polylepis"), but without the "coffin" shape. The two species are strongly convergent in several aspects of morphology, ecology and behaviour. "O. scutellatus" has an angular brow and is lighter-coloured on the face. The body is slender and colouration can vary. It is often uniformly light olive or reddish-brown in colour, but some specimens may be dark gray to