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
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