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Archived from the original on 21 August 2011. International Institute for Species Exploration.
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scutellatus), found along the northeastern coast of Queensland, and the Papuan taipan ( O. The coastal taipan has two subspecies: the coastal taipan ( O.
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microlepidotus), and a recently discovered third species, the Central Ranges taipan ( O. The three known species are the coastal taipan ( Oxyuranus scutellatus), the inland taipan ( O. The oft-quoted meaning "sharp-tailed" (based on a confusion with οὐρά, oura, "tail", and Latin anus) is both etymologically and morphologically incorrect.
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The genus name is from Greek ὀξῠ́ς ( oxys: sharp, needle-like) and οὐρανός ( ouranos: an arch, specifically the vault of the heavens), and refers to the needle-like anterior process on the arch of the palate, which Kinghorn noted separated the genus from all other elapids. The Wik-Mungkan people used the name in reference to an ancestral creator being in Aboriginal Australian mythology known as the Rainbow Serpent. 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.