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As its common name suggests, it is a bright green snake that can reach a total length (including tail) of 2 m (6.6 ft) and a weight of 1.6 kg (3.5 lb), with females slightly larger and heavier than males. Living generally in trees, the green tree python mainly hunts and eats small reptiles and mammals.
Commonly known as the northern green tree python, this arboreal python was previously included in the Morelia viridis species complex. [ 1 ] According to recent research "Strong genetic structuring of green python populations and species delimitation methods confirm the presence of two species, broadly occurring north and south of New Guinea ...
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.
Green tree python; northern green tree python Papua New Guinea (Biak, Numfor and Supiori in the Schouten Islands group of Cenderawasih Bay) M. bredli (Gow, 1981) 0 Bredl's python; Centralian python Australia, in the mountains of the southern Northern Territory: M. carinata (L.A. Smith, 1981) 0 Rough-scaled python
Green tree snake may refer to either of the following non-venomous snakes: Morelia viridis , the green tree python, a python species found in New Guinea, various islands in Indonesia, and the Cape York Peninsula in Australia
Additionally, python fat has been used to treat those suffering from mental illnesses like psychosis. [30] Their calm nature is thought to be of use to treat combative patients. The fat of the python is rubbed onto the body part that is in pain. To improve mental illnesses, it is often rubbed on the temple. [29]
The emerald tree boa appears very similar to the southern green tree python (Morelia viridis) from southeast Asia and Australia. This is an example of convergent evolution: the species are only very distantly related. Physical differences include the head scalation and the location of the heat pits around the mouth.
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