Liasis
Appearance
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Liasis mackloti | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Pythonidae |
Subfamily: | Pythoninae |
Genus: | Liasis Gray, 1842 |
Species | |
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Liasis is a genus of pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. Currently, three extant species are recognized[2] and one giant fossil species L. dubudingala, estimated to have been around 10 m (33 ft) in length.[3]
Geographic range
[edit]They are found in the Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands, east through New Guinea and in northern and western Australia.[1]
Species
[edit]Species[2] | Taxon author[2] | Subsp.*[2] | Common name | Geographic range[1] |
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L. fuscus | W. Peters, 1873 | 0 | Water python | Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland), the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, Cornwallis Island in the Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea (lower Fly River region) and Indonesia (southern Papua) |
L. macklotiT | A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844 | 2 | Macklot's python | Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Roti, Samao, Timor, Wetar and Savu |
L. olivaceus | Gray, 1842 | 1 | Olive python | Australia in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland |
)*Not including the nominate subspecies
)TType species[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ a b c d "Liasis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
- ^ Scanlon, J.D.; Mackness, B.S. (2001). "A new giant python from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northeastern Queensland". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 25 (4): 425. doi:10.1080/03115510108619232. S2CID 85185368.
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- Liasis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 September 2007.