Simalia
Genus of snakes
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Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.[1]
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| Simalia | |
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| Adult High-Yellow Sorong Amethystine Scrub Python | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Pythonidae |
| Genus: | Simalia Gray, 1849 |
| Type species | |
| Simalia amethistina | |
Taxonomy
Simalia Gray, 1849, was considered a taxonomic synonym of
- Liasis (a genus of non-venomous pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia) and
- Morelia (a genus of large snakes, in the family Pythonidae, found in Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea),
but Reynolds et al. (2014)[2] resurrected the genus for the Morelia amethistina species group (which, together with Morelia viridis, had made the genus Morelia paraphyletic).
Species
The genus Simalia contains the following species:[1]
| Image | Species | Distribution |
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S. amethistina (Schneider, 1801) (type species) | Indonesia, Papua New Guinea |
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S. boeleni (Brongersma, 1953) | New Guinea |
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S. clastolepis (Harvey et al., 2000) | Indonesia |
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S. kinghorni (Stull, 1933) | northern Australia |
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S. nauta (Harvey et al., 2000) | Indonesia |
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S. tracyae (Harvey et al., 2000) | Indonesian island of Halmahera |
As of June 2022, ITIS and the IUCN Red List identify the Oenpelli python as Simalia oenpelliensis, while The Reptile Database places it in the monotypic genus Nyctophilopython.[3][4][5]
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Simalia.