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Simalia
Genus of snakes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.[1]
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Taxonomy
Simalia Gray, 1849, 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)[2] resurrected the genus for the Morelia amethistina species group (which, together with Morelia viridis, had made the genus Morelia paraphyletic).
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Species
The genus Simalia contains the following species:[1]
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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