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
Taipan Taipan The taipans are snakes of the genus Oxyuranus in the elapid family. They are large, fast-moving, highly venomous, and endemic to Australasia. There are currently three recognised species, one of which, the coastal taipan, has two subspecies. The taipans are considered some of the most deadly known snakes. The common name, taipan, was coined by anthropologist Donald Thomson after the word used by the Wik-Mungkan Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. The genus name is from Greek "oxys" (sharp, needle-like) and "ouranos" (an arch, specifically the arch of the heavens), and refers to the needle-like anterior