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Living generally in trees, the green tree python mainly hunts and eats small reptiles and mammals. It is a popular pet, and numbers in the wild have suffered with large-scale smuggling of wild-caught green tree pythons in Indonesia. Despite this, the green tree python is rated as least concern on the IUCN Red List of endangered species.
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 ...
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
The reticulated python is the only python species known to sometimes eat humans in its natural habitat in Sulawesi, Indonesia. [12] All prey is swallowed whole, and may take several days or even weeks to fully digest.
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.
M. s. spilota. M. spilota is a large species of python in the genus, reaching between 2 and 4 m (6.6 and 13.1 ft) in length and weighing up to 15 kg (33 lb). M. s. mcdowelli is the largest subspecies, regularly attaining lengths of 2.7–3.0 m (8.9–9.8
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.