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Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:70cf26fe-d984-4bcd-a839-3f73a78c17b8

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

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WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=genus:Morelia
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Terrestrial Habitats

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Names and sources

Accepted name Source
Morelia

Synonyms

Synonyms Source
Simalia (part.) Gray, 1849
Published in: Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum London : British Museum pp. xv 125 pp.
Aspidopython Meyer, 1874
Published in: Meyer, A.B. 1874. Eine mitteilung von Hrn. Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahr 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Mber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berl. Vol. 1874 pp. 128-140
Chondropython Meyer, 1874
Published in: Meyer, A.B. 1874. Eine mitteilung von Hrn. Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahr 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Mber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berl. Vol. 1874 pp. 128-140
Hypaspistes Ogilby, 1891
Published in: Ogilby, J.D. 1891. Descriptions of three new Papuan snakes. Rec. Aust. Mus. Vol. 1 pp. 192-194
Australiasis Wells & Wellington, 1984
Published in: Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1984. A synopsis of the class Reptilia in Australia. Aust. J. Herpetol. Vol. 1 (3-4) pp. 73-129
Montypythonoides Smith & Plane, 1985
Published in: Smith, M.J. & Plane, M. 1985. Pythonine snakes (Boidae) from the Miocene of Australia. Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics Vol. 9 pp. 191-195
Nyctophilopython Wells & Wellington, 1985
Published in: Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Aust. J. Herpetol. Suppl. Ser. Vol. 1 pp. 1-61
Lenhoserus Hoser, 2000
Published in: Hoser, R. 2000. A revision of the Australasian pythons. Ophidia Rev. Vol. 1 pp. 7-27

Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
CHORDATA
subphylum
VERTEBRATA
suprageneric
GNATHOSTOMATA
class
REPTILIA
subclass
LEPIDOSAURIA
order
SQUAMATA
suborder
SERPENTES
family
BOIDAE
genus
Morelia  Recorded in Australia
species
Morelia bredli: Centralian Carpet Python  Recorded in Australia
species
Morelia carinata: Rough-scaled Python  Recorded in Australia
species
Morelia kinghorni: Australian Scrub Python  Recorded in Australia
species
Morelia oenpelliensis: Oenpelli Rock Python  Recorded in Australia
species
Morelia spilota: Diamond Python  Recorded in Australia
species
Morelia viridis: Green Python  Recorded in Australia

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Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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