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Liasis

Liasis is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae. Species of the genus Liasis are native to Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. Currently, three extant species are recognized, and one giant fossil species L. dubudingala is estimated to have been around 10 m (33 ft) in length.

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Liasis
Liasis mackloti
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Pythonidae
Subfamily: Pythoninae
Genus: Liasis
Gray, 1842
Species

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Synonyms
  • Liasis Gray, 1840
  • Liasis Gray, 1842
  • Simalia Gray, 1849
  • Lisalia Gray, 18491

Liasis is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae. Species of the genus Liasis are native to Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. Currently, three extant species are recognized,2 and one giant fossil species L. dubudingala is estimated to have been around 10 m (33 ft) in length.3

Geographic range

Liasis species are found in Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands, east through New Guinea and in northern and western Australia.1

Species

Species2 Taxon author2 Subsp.*2 Common name Geographic range1
L. fuscus

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

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

Gray, 1842 1 olive python Australia in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland

)*Not including the nominate subspecies
)TType species1

Extinct species

Species3 Taxon author3 Subsp.*3 Common name3 Geographic range3
L.dubudingala Scanlon and Mackness, 2002 0 Bluff Downs giant python Australia (Northern Queensland)
References

References

  1. 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).
  2. "Liasis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
  3. 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.
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