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by hoyta on January 13, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
o.k,simple enough-my buddy and i are arguing a point,so i need some help!? taipans-the coastal and the inland,are subspecies of each other,right?he's saying both are the same thing,no matter whether or not they have the title "coastal" or "inland".... pleasde help me on this! by the way,i know you guys have had the same types of conversations when you get around a bunch of reptile guys!-adam by the way,does this make any sense?

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by MoccasinMan on January 13, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
I'm not an expert on Taipans, but I do know that their are two different subspecies. The Inland Taipan or Fierce Snake has the most toxic venom of any snake on the planet. It's cousin's is powerful too but comes in farther down the list. Andrew

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by LarryDFishel on January 13, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
No. As Bill said in the other version of this thread the inland (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) and the coastal (Oxyuranus scutellatus) are two different species. However, the coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus) and the Papua-New Guinea taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus canni) are two subspecies of the coastal. At least a couple of people claim to have discovered other subspecies or even species. The one I remember specifically is not taken very seriously...

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by LarryDFishel on January 13, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
P.S. The coastal and the inland are so different that some argue they shouldn't even be in the same genus.

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by bush_viper17 on January 14, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
Larry already pointed this out, but they are not even subspecies of each other. They are just in the same Genus.

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by Phobos on January 14, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
I moved this reply to get rid of a duplicate thread. Al RE: long ,drawn out debate with a friend on taipan Delete? Reply by KingCobraFan on January 13, 2006 Mail this to a friend! Hoyta, the only way in which they're the same thing is that they're both taipans. The coastal is Oxyuranus scutellatus, while the inland is Oxyuranus microlepidotus. Same family (Elapidae), same genus (Oxyuranus), but two different species. Sincerely, Bill Huseth

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by hoyta on January 14, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
i didn't realize someone had already posted about it!thanks for the info guys-adam

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