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The ball python is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List; it experiences a high level of exploitation and the population is believed to be in decline in most of West Africa. [1] The ball python is primarily threatened by poaching for the international exotic pet trade. It is also hunted for its skin, meat and use in traditional medicine.
Red-tailed pipe snake; Python. African rock python; Amethystine python; Angolan python; Australian scrub python; Ball python; Bismarck ringed python; Black headed python; Blood python; Boelen python; Borneo short-tailed python; Bredl's python; Brown water python; Burmese python; Calabar python; Western carpet python. Centralian carpet python ...
Python is a genus of constricting snakes in the Pythonidae family native to the tropics and subtropics of the Eastern Hemisphere. [ 1 ] The name python was proposed by François Marie Daudin in 1803 for non-venomous flecked snakes. [ 2 ]
This is a list of all extant genera, species, and subspecies of the snakes of the family Pythonidae, otherwise referred to as pythonids or true pythons.It follows the taxonomy currently provided by ITIS, [1] which is based on the continuing work of Roy McDiarmid [2] and has been updated with additional recently described species.
This is a checklist of American reptiles found in Northern America, based primarily on publications by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). [1] [2] [3] It includes all species of Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States including recently introduced species such as chameleons, the Nile monitor, and the Burmese python.
Python bivittatus, Burmese python (2013 [262]) Python regius, Ball python (2020 [citation needed]) Salvator merianae, Argentine black and white tegu (2018 [263]) Sceloporus undulatus, Eastern fence lizard (2021 [264]) Shinisaurus crocodilurus, Chinese crocodile lizard, (2017 [265]) Simalia boeleni, Boelen's Python (2022 [266])
Python anchietae (with common names Angolan python and Anchieta's dwarf python) [3] is a python species endemic to southern Africa.According to Donald George Broadley (1990), this species is most closely related to the ball python (P. regius) of western Africa, [3] and no subspecies are currently recognized. [4]
Scientific names should be used otherwise. Ball python fails this test. There are two common names for this python - Ball python (Google hits 2,430,000 and Royal python (Google hits 2,200,00 ). So the species article does not have a reasonably unique name. There is as good a case for the article to be called Royal Python as there is for Ball ...