Inland taipan Moscow - Russian federation. (page 17) European Association of Zoos and Aquaria Magazine. Retrieved November 11, 2013.</ref> In the Moscow Zoo they are kept in the "House of Reptiles" which is not usually open for the general public. The inland taipan is also on public display in Australia at the Australia Zoo, Australian Reptile Park, Billabong Sanctuary, Cairns Tropical Zoo, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and Shoalhaven Zoo. The snake is also on display at several locations outside of Australia. In the United States, inland taipans are held at the Dallas Zoo, at Reptile Gardens South Dakota, at Kentucky Reptile Zoo
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