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The inland taipan(Oxyuranus microlepidotus), also commonly known as the western taipan or the small-scaled snake or fierce snake, is a highly 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 William John Macleay in 1882, but for the next 90 years, it had been a mystery species to...

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• iNat taxon page
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