Python regius

Python regius

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Booidea
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Chordata Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Reptilia Subclassis: Diapsida Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Superfamilia: Booidea

Familia: Boidae
Subfamilia: Pythoninae
Genus: Python
Species: Python regius

Name

Python regius (Shaw, 1802)

Type locality: "Gambia"

Holotype: BMNH IV 3. 3a.

Synonyms

• Boa Regia Shaw, 1802: 347
• Python Belii Gray, 1842: 44
• Python regius — Duméril & Bibron, 1844: 412
• Python regius — Boulenger, 1893: 88
• Python regius — Schmidt, 1923: 55
• Python regius — McDiarmid, Campbell & Touré, 1999: 179
• Shireenhoserus regius — Hoser, 2004

References

• Shaw, G. 1802. General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Vol.3, part 1 + 2. G. Kearsley, Thomas Davison, London: 313-615
• Austin, James D.;Gregory, Patrick T. 1999. Relative roles of thermal and chemical cues in the investigative behavior of prey in colubrid (Elaphe guttata and Lampropeltis getulus) and Boid (Python regius) snakes Herpetological Natural History 6 (1): 47-50 [1998]
• Kölpin, T. 2007. Anschaffung von Königspythons (Python regius). Reptilia (Münster) 12 (1): 87-89
• Python regius (Shaw, 1802) Report on ITIS
• Python regius at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 Jule 2009.

Vernacular Name

Deutsch: Königspython
English: Ball python
日本語: ボールニシキヘビ
Polski: Pyton królewski
Türkçe: Top piton
中文: 球蟒