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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 ]
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.
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 ]
Poaching of pythons is a lucrative business with the global python skin trade being an estimated US$1 billion as of 2012. [18] Pythons are poached for their meat, mostly consumed locally as bushmeat and their skin, which is sent to Europe and North America for manufacture of accessories like bags, belts and shoes. [19]
This is a list of extant snakes, ... Ball python; Bismarck ringed python; Black headed python; Blood python; Boelen python; Borneo short-tailed python; Bredl's python;
Wildlife conservators found 500 pounds of pythons in a single day last month in Collier County, Florida.. The 11 Burmese pythons were found Feb. 21 in three different breeding aggregations, or ...
In all, 11 pythons were caught — one more than 16 feet long — bringing the tally to 500 pounds of snake. ... but his tracker led the team to the first mating ball, which included two males of ...
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 Python.