Liasis
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| Genus: | Liasis Gray, 1842
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Liasis is a genus of nonvenomous pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. Currently, 4 extant species are recognized[2] and one giant fossil species L. dubudingala, estimated to have been around 10m (33ft) in length.[3]
Geographic range
They are found in the Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands, east through New Guinea and in northern and western Australia.[1]
Species
| Species[2] | Taxon author[2] | Subsp.*[2] | Common name | Geographic range[1] |
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| L. fuscus | Peters, 1873 | 0 | Brown 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 | 1 | Macklot's python | Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Roti, Samao, Timor and Wetar |
| L. olivaceus | Gray, 1842 | 1 | Olive python | Australia in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland |
| L. savuensis | Carmichael, 2007 | 0 | Savu python | Indonesia on the Lesser Sunda Island of Sawu |
*) Not including the nominate subspecies
T) Type species[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 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.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Liasis.
- Liasis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 September 2007.