Simalia
| Simalia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Pythonidae |
| Genus: | Simalia Gray, 1849 |
Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.
Taxonomy
Simalia Gray, 1849, was a taxonomic synonym of
- Liasis (a genus of non-venomous pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia) and
- Morelia (a genus of large snakes, in the family Pythonidae, found in Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea),
but Reynolds et al. (2014)[1] resurrected the genus for the Morelia amethistina species group (which, together with Morelia viridis had made genus Morelia paraphyletic).
Species
The genus Simalia contains the following species:
- S. amethistina (Schneider, 1801) (type species)
- S. boeleni (Brongersma, 1953)
- S. clastolepis (Harvey et al., 2000)
- S. kinghorni (Stull, 1933)
- S. nauta (Harvey et al., 2000)
- S. oenpelliensis (Gow, 1977)
- S. tracyae (Harvey et al., 2000)
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Simalia.
References
Further reading
- Gray JE (1849). Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xv + 125 pp. (Simalia, new genus, p. 91).