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The snake, which ended up dying a few weeks later, was the first known taipan to have been milked for venom: Melbourne zoologist David Fleay and Dr. F. C. Morgan performed the milking, and the venom was used to develop an antivenom, which became available in 1955.
The inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), also commonly known as the western taipan, small-scaled snake, or fierce snake, [6] is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to semiarid regions of central east Australia . [ 7 ]
The coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), or common taipan, [4] is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. Described by Wilhelm Peters in 1867, the species is native to the coastal regions of northern and eastern Australia and the island of New Guinea. The second-longest venomous snake in Australia, the coastal taipan ...
The Central Ranges taipan, or Western Desert taipan (Oxyuranus temporalis), is a species of taipan that was described in 2007 by Australian researchers Paul Doughty, Brad Maryan, Stephen Donnellan, and Mark Hutchinson. [2] Taipans are large, fast-moving, and extremely venomous Australasian snakes.
Kevin Clifford Budden (September 27, 1930 [1] – July 28, 1950) [2] was an amateur Australian herpetologist and snake hunter. Budden was the first person to capture a live taipan for research and died from a snakebite in the process of doing so.
The inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) is considered the most venomous snake in the world with a murine LD 50 value of 0.025 mg/kg SC. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] Ernst and Zug et al. 1996 list a value of 0.01 mg/kg SC , which makes it the most venomous snake in the world in their study too.
Australian snakes possess potent venom; 10 of the world's top 10 most venomous snakes live in Australia. [ 2 ] The estimated incidence of snakebites annually in Australia is between 3 and 18 per 100,000 with an average mortality rate of 0.03 per 100,000 per year, [ 3 ] or roughly 1 to 2 persons, [ 4 ] down from 13 persons per year in the 1920s ...
Ram Chandra OAM BEM (given name: Edward Royce Ramsamy) was a snake showman in Australia. He was known as Australia's "taipan man" and for his work in extracting snake venom to create antivenoms. He was born on 24 May 1921 and joined the show circuit in Sydney in the early 1940s. [1]