Simalia
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| Adult High-Yellow Sorong Amethystine Scrub Python | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Pythonidae |
| Genus: | Simalia Gray, 1849 |
| Type species | |
Simalia amethistina | |
Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.[1]
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)Morelia viridis, had made the genus Morelia paraphyletic).
Species
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, and Australia. |
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S. boeleni (Brongersma, 1953) | New Guinea |
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S. clastolepis (Harvey et al., 2000) | Indonesia. |
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S. kinghorni (Stull, 1933) | northern Australia. |
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S. nauta (Harvey et al., 2000) | Indonesia. |
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S. tracyae (Harvey et al., 2000) | Indonesian island of Halmahera. |
As of June 2022,
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Simalia.
References
- ^ a b Simalia at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 June 2022.
- PMID 24315866.
- ^ "Simalia oenpelliensis (Gow, 1977)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- . Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 June 2022.
Further reading
- Gray JE (1849). Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xv + 125 pp. (Simalia, new genus, p. 91).