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  2. List of snakes by common name - Wikipedia

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    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; Coastal carpet python; Inland carpet python; Jungle ...

  3. Ball python - Wikipedia

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    The ball python (Python regius), also called the royal python, is a python species native to West and Central Africa, where it lives in grasslands, shrublands and open forests. This nonvenomous constrictor is the smallest of the African pythons, growing to a maximum length of 182 cm (72 in). [ 2 ]

  4. List of pythonid species and subspecies - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Pythonidae - Wikipedia

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    Python bodies and blood are used for African traditional medicines and other belief uses as well, one in-depth study of all animals used by the Yorubas of Nigeria for traditional medicine found that the African Python is used to cure rheumatism, snake poison, appeasing witches, and accident prevention.

  6. Talk:Ball python - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Python (genus) - Wikipedia

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    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] Currently, 10 python species are recognized as valid taxa. [3]

  8. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

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    The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...

  9. Central African rock python - Wikipedia

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    The generic name Python is a Greek word referring to the enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo in Greek mythology. The specific name sebae is a latinization of the surname of Dutch zoologist, Albertus Seba. [4] [5] Common name usage varies with the species referred to as the African rock python or simply the rock python.