Szyndlar, Zbigniew;Georgalis, Georgios L.
Simalia
Sign in to saveSimalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.
Species
Australian Scrub Python
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyPythonidae
Observations1,337
Observations recorded2,278
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 93
- Family
- Pythonidae
- Collections
- ANWC
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- pythons
- Image
- High-Yellow Sorong Amethystine Scrub Python (Morelia amethistina).jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Simalia
- topic's main category
- Category:Simalia
- Commons category
- Simalia
- taxon author citation
- Gray, 1849
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Encyclopedic overview
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Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.
==Taxonomy== Simalia , was considered a taxonomic synonym of Liasis (a genus of non-venomous pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia) and Morelia (a genus of large snakes, in the family Pythonidae, found in Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea), but Reynolds et al. (2014) resurrected the genus for the Morelia amethistina species group (which, together with Morelia viridis, had made the genus Morelia paraphyletic).
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