Liasis is a genus of pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. Currently, three extant species are recognized[2] and one giant fossil species L. dubudingala, estimated to have been around 10 m (33 ft) in length.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Pythonidae |
| Subfamily: | Pythoninae |
| Genus: | Liasis Gray, 1842 |
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Geographic range
editThey are found in the Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands, east through New Guinea and in northern and western Australia.[1]
Species
edit| Species[2] | Taxon author[2] | Subsp.*[2] | Common name | Geographic range[1] |
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| L. fuscus
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W. Peters, 1873 | 0 | 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
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A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844 | 2 | Macklot's python | Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Roti, Samao, Timor, Wetar and Savu |
| L. olivaceus
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Gray, 1842 | 1 | Olive python | Australia in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland |
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References
edit- ^ a b c d McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (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. S2CID 85185368.
External links
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- Liasis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 September 2007.
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