taipans

Its primary distinguisher from O. microlepidotus and O. scutellatus, its sister species taipans, is via one primary temporal scales (vs. two) and six lower labials (vs. seven).

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

For years he, and his 38-year-old cousin Adam, also a nephew of Sir Henry Keswick, were seen as eventual "taipans" -- or foreigners who head an important business or company in China -- for the company.

Jardines Taps Keswick Scion as Managing Director Polly Hui 2011

There were the powerful and influential leaders of industry known as "taipans".

Today's Inspiration 2008

The blaze was finally quenched Tuesday after an expert summoned to the scene captured seven snakes, including an Indian cobra and two Australian taipans – all packing potent venom that Resperger said there was no antidote for in Austria.

Vienna, Austria: Snakes Force Firefighters To Retreat From Burning Barn 2012

Built in 1910, the club and its hallmark 110-foot Long Bar hosted the bankers and taipans who helped to make Shanghai Asia's richest city through the first half of the 20th century.

Expo Renews Focus on Shanghai's Foreign Side 2010

Suggestive by the researchers that taipans were once more widespread through Australia.

Archive 2007-03-01 2007

Even in their offices, the taipans and griffins had native managers who allowed their employers plenty of time for long lunches and billiards at the Shanghai Club.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

The GSIS head is a tough lackey of the administration and the SM Malls spread all over the country is owned by one of the richest taipans in Asia.

Mini Forest within Baguio City under Study for Commercial Development Nomadicasian 2008

Sea snakes in the modern sense are proteroglygous (= ‘front-fanged’) caenophidians that belong to Elapidae, the widespread and successful snake clade (consisting of about 300 species) that includes cobras, coral snakes, mambas and the Australasian tiger snakes, taipans, brown snakes, whip snakes and so on.

‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006

Sea snakes in the modern sense are proteroglygous (= ‘front-fanged’) caenophidians that belong to Elapidae, the widespread and successful snake clade (consisting of about 300 species) that includes cobras, coral snakes, mambas and the Australasian tiger snakes, taipans, brown snakes, whip snakes and so on.

Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006