|
Pythonoidea
The Pythonoidea, also known as pythonoid snakes, are a superfamily of snakes that contains pythons (family Pythonidae) and other closely related python-like snakes (but not boas, which are in a separate superfamily called Booidea). As of 2022, Pythonoidea contains 39 species, including the eponymous genus '' Python'' and 10 other genera of pythons (''Antaresia'', ''Apodora'', '' Aspidites'', '' Bothrochilus'', '' Leiopython'', ''Liasis'', '' Malayopython'', ''Morelia'', '' Nyctophilopthon'' and ''Simalia''), all in the family Pythonidae, as well as two lesser-known families, Loxocemidae (one species, the Mexican burrowing python, in the genus ''Loxocemus'') and Xenopeltidae (two species of sunbeam snakes in the genus '' Xenopeltis''). The taxonomy of pythons, boas, and other henophidian snakes has long been debated, and ultimately the decision whether to assign a particular clade to a particular Linnaean rank (such as a superfamily, family Family (from la, familia) is a gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booidea
The Booidea, also known as booid snakes, are a superfamily of snakes that contains boas (family Boidae) and other closely related boa-like snakes (but not pythons, which are in a separate superfamily called Pythonoidea). As of 2017, Booidea contains 61 species, including the eponymous neotropical ''Boa constrictor'', anacondas (genus '' Eunectes''), and smaller tree and rainbow boas (''Corallus'', ''Epicrates'', and '' Chilabothrus'') as well as several genera of booid snakes from various locations around the world: bevel-nosed boas or keel-scaled boas ('' Candoia'') from New Guinea and Melanesia, Old World sand boas ('' Eryx'') from Northeast Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia, rubber boas ('' Charina'') and rosy boas ('' Lichanura'') from North America, neotropical dwarf boas (''Ungaliophis'') and the Oaxacan dwarf boa ('' Exiliboa'') from Central America, Madagascan boas or Malagasy boas ('' Acrantophis'' and '' Sanzinia'') from Madagascar, and the Calabar python ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads ( cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pythonidae
The Pythonidae, commonly known as pythons, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world. Ten genera and 42 species are currently recognized. Distribution and habitat Pythons are found in sub-Saharan Africa, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, southeastern Pakistan, southern China, the Philippines and Australia. In the United States, an introduced population of Burmese pythons, ''Python bivittatus'', has existed as an invasive species in the Everglades National Park since the late 1990s. Common names * Sinhala - පිඹුරා (''Pimbura'') *Telugu - కొండచిలువ (Kondachiluva) * Odia - ଅଜଗର (Ajagara) *Malayalam - പെരുമ്പാമ്പ് (perumpāmp) *Hindi - अजगर ('Ajgar') Conservation Many species have been hunted aggressively, which has greatly reduced the population of some, such as the Indian python, ''Python ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayopython
''Malayopython'' is a genus of constricting snakes in the family Pythonidae. The genus is native to India and Southeast Asia. It contains two species, both of which were previously classified within the genus '' Python''. However, multiple studies recovered these species as distinct. Known as the "''reticulatus'' clade", it was eventually found to be a sister lineage to a lineage giving rise to the Indo-Australian pythons rather than the genus ''Python''. Taxonomy In 1975, American herpetologist Samuel Booker McDowell divided the genus ''Python'' into a "''molurus'' group" and "''reticulatus'' group" on the basis of differences in supralabial pits (shallow diagonal slits in the latter, square or triangular in the former) and infralabial pits (shallow and not in a groove in the former, in a groove in the latter), as well as differences in the ectopterygoid and hemipenis. He added New Guinea members of ''Liasis'' and ''Morelia'' to the ''reticulatus'' group. American zoologist Arnol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily ( Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoological names with "-inae". See also * International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants The ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) is the set of rules and recommendations dealing with the formal botanical names that are given to plants, fungi and a few other groups of organisms, all those "trad ... * International Code of Zoological Nomenclature * Rank (botany) * Rank (zoology) Sources {{biology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superfamily (zoology)
In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain. While older approaches to taxonomic classification were phenomenological, forming groups on the basis of similarities in appearance, organic structure and behaviour, methods based on genetic analysis have opened the road to cladistics. A given rank subsumes under it less general categories, that is, more specific descriptions of life forms. Above it, each rank is classified within more general categories of organisms and groups of organisms related to each other through inheritance of traits or features from common ancestors. The rank of any ''species'' and the description of its ''genus'' is ''basic''; which means that to identify a particular organism, it is usually not necessary to specify ranks other than these first two. Consider a particul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linnaean Taxonomy
Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts: # The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his ''Systema Naturae'' (1735) and subsequent works. In the taxonomy of Linnaeus there are three kingdoms, divided into ''classes'', and they, in turn, into lower ranks in a hierarchical order. # A term for rank-based classification of organisms, in general. That is, taxonomy in the traditional sense of the word: rank-based scientific classification. This term is especially used as opposed to cladistic systematics, which groups organisms into clades. It is attributed to Linnaeus, although he neither invented the concept of ranked classification (it goes back to Plato and Aristotle) nor gave it its present form. In fact, it does not have an exact present form, as "Linnaean taxonomy" as such does not really exist: it is a collective (abstracting) term for what actually are several separate fields, which use similar appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simalia
''Simalia'' is a genus of snakes in the Family (biology), 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 (snake), 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). Species The genus ''Simalia'' contains the following species: 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''. ''Nota bene'': A Binomial nomenclature, binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Simalia''. References Further rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oenpelli Python
The Oenpelli python or Oenpelli rock python (''Simalia oenpelliensis'' or ''Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis'') is a species of large snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is endemic to the sandstone massif area of the western Arnhem Land region in the Northern Territory of Australia. There are no subspecies that are recognised as being valid. It has been called the rarest python in the world. Two notable characteristics of the species are the unusually large size of its eggs and its ability to change colour. Taxonomy and etymology The Oenpelli python was assigned to a taxonomy in 1977 by Graeme Gow, who placed it in the genus '' Python''.Gow, G. F. (1977). "A New Species of ''Python'' from Arnhem Land". ''Australian Zoologist'' 19: 133-139. (''Python oenpelliensis'', new species) It was then categorised by Cogger and Cameron as a species of ''Morelia''. In 1984, Wells and Wellington placed it into a new genus ''Nyctophilopython'' and in 2014, a work by Reynolds, Niemiller, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morelia (snake)
''Morelia'' is a genus of large snakes in the family Pythonidae found in Indonesia, New Guinea, and throughout Australia. Currently, up to eight species are recognized. In general, these snakes are arboreal to semiarboreal, spending much of their lives in the forest canopy. Although exceptions occur, most attain adult lengths of . Geographic range Species are found from Indonesia in the Maluku Islands, east through New Guinea, including the Bismarck Archipelago, and in Australia. Species Seven species are recognized: *) Not including the nominate subspecies. ) Type species. Hybrids * Morelia spilota ''Morelia spilota'', commonly referred to as the carpet python, is a large snake of the family Pythonidae found in Australia, New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea), Bismarck Archipelago, and the northern Solomon Islands. Many subspecies a ... X viridis References External links {{Taxonbar, from=Q210320 Snake genera Taxa named by John Edward Gray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leiopython
''Leiopython'' is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae. Species The genus ''Leiopython'' contains the following species: * D’Albertis' python, northern white-lipped python, ''L. albertisii'' *Karimui Basin white-lipped python, southern white-lipped python, '' L. fredparkeri'' *Biak white-lipped python, '' L. biakensis'' Description Female adults of the northern white-lipped python (''Leiopython albertisii'') grow to an average of about 213 cm in length (6–7 ft), whereas the southern whitelip python can reach up to in length. They are patternless, except the northern white-lipped python has some light markings on its postoculars,Mehrtens JM. 1987. ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. . which are absent in the southern whitelip python. Behavior Although mostly terrestrial, these snakes can and are known to occasionally climb. White-lipped pythons are reportedly aggressive, though this is reduced in those born and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Malayopython")
