Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Morelia spilota LACÉPÈDE 1804 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Montypythonoides riversleighensis SMITH 1985 (synonym)

Morelia argus DUMÉRIL 1844 (synonym)

Morelia argus fasciolata JAN 1864 (synonym)

Morelia metcalfei WELLS 1985 (synonym)

Python bredli GOW 1981 (ambiguous synonym)

Python perronii WAGLER 1828 (synonym)

Python punctatus MERREM 1820 (synonym)

Python spilotes BOULENGER 1893 (synonym)

Python spilotus DE 1917 (synonym)

Python spilotus imbricatus SMITH 1981 (synonym)

Infraspecies:

Morelia spilota cheynei (WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984)

Morelia spilota harrisoni HOSER 2000

Morelia spilota imbricata (SMITH 1981)

Morelia spilota macrospila WERNER 1910

Morelia spilota mcdowelli (WELLS & WELLINGTON 1984)

Morelia spilota spilota (LACÉPÈDE, 1804)

Morelia spilota variegata GRAY 1842

Common name:

Carpet python English

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Reptilia

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Order Squamata

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Family Boidae

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Genus Morelia

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Distribution:

New Guinea, Australia (New South Wales, North Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria except South, N and S West Australia; not in the arid center of Australia) cheynei: NE Queensland harrisoni: southern coast of Papua New Guinea to the Indones

Additional data:

Synonymy partly after KLUGE 1993. Quite variable species (brown/red, green, yellow, and blue forms are known!). KIVIT & WISEMAN (2005) report a hybrid between M. viridis and M. spilota cheynei.

Source database:

TIGR Reptile Database , Oct 2007

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Uetz P.

Online resource:

http://www.tigr.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:e9eaeb06-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2008


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