List of pythonid species and subspecies

This is a list of all extant genera, species, and subspecies of the snakes of the family Pythonidae, otherwise referred to as pythonids or true pythons. It follows the taxonomy currently provided by ITIS,[1] which is based on the continuing work of Roy McDiarmid[2] and has been updated with additional recently described species.[3][4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "Pythonidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
  2. ^ McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A.; 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).
  3. ^ Harvey, M.B.; Barker, D.G.; Ammerman, L.K.; Chippindale, P.T. 2000. "Systematics of pythons of the Morelia amethistina complex (Serpentes: Boidae) with the description of three new species". Herpetological Monographs, 14: 139-185.
  4. ^ Keogh, J.S.; Barker, D.G.; Shine, R. 2001. "Heavily exploited but poorly known: systematics and biogeography of commercially harvested pythons (Python curtus group)". Southeast Asian Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 73:113-129.
  5. ^ Schleip, W. 2008. "Revision of the genus Leiopython Hubrecht 1879 (Serpentes: Pythonidae) with the redescription of taxa recently described by Hoser (2000) and the description of new species". Journal of Herpetology, 42: 645–667.