Pythoninae

Python molurus

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
Genera (9): Antaresia – Apodora – Aspidites – Bothrochilus – Broghammerus – Leiopython – Liasis – Morelia – Python

Name

• Pythoninae Fitzinger, 1826

References

• Hoser, R. 2000: A revision of the Australasian pythons. Ophidia review, 1(1): 7-27. ZooBank PDF
• Hoser, R. 2004: A reclassification of the Pythoninae including the descriptions of two new genera, two new species and nine new subspecies. Crocodilian, 4(4): 21-39.
• Hoser, R. 2009: Creationism and contrived science: a review of recent python systematics papers and the resolution of issues of taxonomy and nomenclature. Australasian journal of herpetology, 2: 1-34. PDF
• Rawlings, L.H.; Rabosky, D.L.; Donnellan, S.C.; Hutchinson, M.N. 2008: Python phylogenetics: inference from morphology and mitochondrial DNA. Biological journal of the Linnean Society, 93: 603-619. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00904.x
• Schleip, W.D.; O'Shea, M. 2010: Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution. ZooKeys, 66: 29-79. ISSN: 1313-2970 (online) ISSN: 1313-2989 (print) doi: 10.3897/zookeys.66.683

Vernacular names

Cymraeg: Peithon
Deutsch: Python
English: Python
español: Pitón
français: Python
hrvatski: Pitoni
македонски: Питони
Nederlands: Python
日本語: ニシキヘビ
norsk bokmål: Pyton
polski: Pytony
русский: Питоны
SiSwati: Inhlâtfu
ไทย: งูหลาม, งูเหลือม
Türkçe: Pitonlar
українська: Пітони
中文: Python

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