Coastal taipan Coastal taipan The coastal taipan ("Oxyuranus scutellatus"), or common taipan, is a species of large, extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species 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 after the Inland taipan and Eastern brown snake based on its murine . German naturalist Wilhelm Peters described the coastal taipan as "Pseudechis scutellatus" in 1867. Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies. The coastal taipan is the longest
Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan having "no action to speak of". Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan is a simulation video game developed and published by Jaleco Entertainment's American division. The game was released exclusively in North America on November 13, 2002 for the Game Boy Advance. In "Sea Trader", the player controls a ship and tries to build a trading empire by selling goods between different ports. Reception was mixed, with praise directed towards the game's addictive nature while criticism focused on its dated graphics and its somewhat bare-bones gameplay. "Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan" is a shipping simulation game,