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Anthill, Children's and Spotted Pythons (Antaresia) | |
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Australia's dwarf pythons - genus Antaresia
Few herpetologists in the early 1980's were even aware that such a synonymy even existed. Things began to change when in 1981 I wrote a paper formally describing the Western Australian form as a new species. At the same time I also sought to redescribe the Ant-hill Python as Liasis perthensis (as a full species) in a separate paper, which was by that stage erroneously regarded by most as being an invalid name applied to western populations of the so-called Children's Python. [eng] |
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Antaresia stimsoni
Photo and map of distribution. [eng] |
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Ant-hill Pythons - Antaresia perthensis
Ant-hill Pythons remain one of the least known of Australia's pythons. This shouldn't necessarily be so. You see they are dirt common where they occur. More on this later. Much of the information that follows has previously been published in papers by myself in Reptiles (Hoser, 1995) and Litteratura Serpentium (Hoser, 1992). [eng] |
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Antaresia childreni
Photo and map of distribution. [eng] |
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Antaresia maculosa
Photo and map of distribution. [eng] |
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Genus Antaresia
Anthill or dwarf pythons, limited in size to about 1 meter (3.1 feet). Generally brown or dark tan snakes with darker blotches or spots on the body, and a pale unmarked belly. [eng] |
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