Simalia

Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.

Simalia
Adult High-Yellow Sorong Amethystine Scrub Python
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Pythonidae
Genus: Simalia
Gray, 1849

Taxonomy

Simalia Gray, 1849, was 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)[1] resurrected the genus for the Morelia amethistina species group (which, together with Morelia viridis had made genus Morelia paraphyletic).

Species

The genus Simalia contains the following species:

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Simalia.

References

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).
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