Python regius

Python regius

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Henophidia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Henophidia

Familia: Pythonidae
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, J.D. & Gregory, P.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 names

беларуская: Грымучнікі сапраўдныя
Deutsch: Königspython
English: Ball python
lietuvių: Karališkasis Pitonas
magyar: Királypiton
日本語: ボールニシキヘビ
polski: Pyton królewski
ไทย: งูหลามบอล, บอลไพธอน
Türkçe: Top piton
中文: 球蟒

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