Oxyuranus

Familia: Elapidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophiinae
Genus:
Species (3): O. microlepidotus – O. scutellatus – O. temporalis

Oxyuranus Kinghorn, 1923: 42

• Type species: Oxyuranus maclennani Kinghorn, 1923, by monotypy.

• Kinghorn, J.R. 1923. A new genus of elapine snake from north Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 14(1): 42–45. BHL

• Wüster, W., Dumbrell, A.J., Hay, C., Pook, C.E., Williams, D.J. & Fry, B.G. 2005. Snakes across the Strait: trans-Torresian phylogeographic relationships in three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus, and Pseudechis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(1): 1–14. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.08.018 Reference page. 
• Doughty, P., Maryan, B., Donnellan, S.C. & Hutchinson, M.N. 2007. A new species of taipan (Elapidae: Oxyuranus) from central Australia. Zootaxa 1422(1): 45–58. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1422.1.3

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Oxyuranus . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 19 July 2025.

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