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A new species of taipan (Elapidae: Oxyuranus) from central Australia

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  • 1. Department of Terrestrial Vertebrates, Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool WA 6106, Australia & e-mail: Paul.Doughty@museum.wa.gov.au
  • 2. Department of Terrestrial Vertebrates, Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool WA 6106, Australia & e-mail: Brad.Maryan@museum.wa.gov.au
  • 3. Evolutionary Biology Unit, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide SA and Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia; e-mail: Donnellan.Steve@saugov.sa.gov.au
  • 4. Herpetology Section, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide SA and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia; e-mail: hutchinson.mark@saugov.sa.gov.au

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Doughty, Paul, Maryan, Brad, Donnellan, Stephen C., Hutchinson, Mark N. (2007): A new species of taipan (Elapidae: Oxyuranus) from central Australia. Zootaxa 1422 (1): 45-58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1422.1.3, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1422.1.3

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Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.5077183 (DOI)
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