Pythonidae

Taxonavigation

Familia: Pythonidae
Genera (10): Antaresia – Aspidites – Bothrochilus – Leiopython – Liasis – Malayopython – Morelia – Nyctophilopython – Python – Simalia

Name

Pythonidae Fitzinger, 1826

References

• Barker, D.G., Barker, T.M., Davis, M.A. & Schuett, G.W., 2015. A review of the systematics and taxonomy of Pythonidae: an ancient serpent lineage. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175 (1): 1-19 DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12267 Reference page. 
• Rawlings, L.H., Rabosky, D.L., Donnellan, S.C. & Hutchinson, M.N. 2008 Python phylogenetics: inference from morphology and mitochondrial DNA. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93(3): 603–619. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00904.x Reference page. 
• Reynolds, R.G., Niemiller, M.L. & Revell, L.J. 2014. Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 201–213. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011 Reference page. 
• Schleip, W.D. & O’Shea, M. 2010. Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution. ZooKeys 66: 29–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.66.683 Reference page. 

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