Inland taipan Inland taipan The inland taipan ("Oxyuranus microlepidotus"), also commonly known as the western taipan, the small-scaled snake, or the fierce snake, is an extremely venomous snake of the taipan ("Oxyuranus") genus, and is endemic to semi-arid regions of central east Australia. Aboriginal Australians living in those regions named the snake "Dandarabilla". It was first described by Frederick McCoy in 1879 and then by William John Macleay in 1882, but for the next 90 years, it was a mystery species to the scientific community. No more specimens were found, and virtually nothing was added to the knowledge of this species until
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