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Genus of snakes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.[1]
Simalia | |
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Adult High-Yellow Sorong Amethystine Scrub Python | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Pythonidae |
Genus: | Simalia Gray, 1849 |
Type species | |
Simalia amethistina |
Simalia Gray, 1849, was considered a taxonomic synonym of
but Reynolds et al. (2014)[2] resurrected the genus for the Morelia amethistina species group (which, together with Morelia viridis, had made the genus Morelia paraphyletic).
The genus Simalia contains the following species:[1]
Image | Species | Distribution |
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S. amethistina (Schneider, 1801) (type species) | Indonesia, Papua New Guinea | |
S. boeleni (Brongersma, 1953) | New Guinea | |
S. clastolepis (Harvey et al., 2000) | Indonesia | |
S. kinghorni (Stull, 1933) | northern Australia | |
S. nauta (Harvey et al., 2000) | Indonesia | |
S. tracyae (Harvey et al., 2000) | Indonesian island of Halmahera | |
As of June 2022, ITIS and the IUCN Red List also identify the Oenpelli python as Simalia oenpelliensis, while The Reptile Database places it in the monotypic genus Nyctophilopython.[3][4][5]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Simalia.
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