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Borneo python (Python breitensteini)
Subject: Borneo python (Python breitensteini)
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Python breitensteini (13106752324) - Borneo python (Python breitensteini).jpg
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Borneo python (Python breitensteini)


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The Borneo Short-tail Python is endangered due to poaching for its attractive skin. This one is safe at the Serpentarium in Mendoza, Argentina. In context at http://www.dixpix.ca/indonesia/fauna/reptiles/index.html
Date 10 March 2014, 19:02
Source Python breitensteini https://www.flickr.com/photos/92252798@N07/13106752324/
Author Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada https://www.flickr.com/people/92252798@N07
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Python_breitensteini_(13106752324).jpg

The Borneo python (Python breitensteini) is a species of non venomous python endemic to the island of Borneo. Other common names include Bornean short python and Borneo short-tailed python. The specific name, breitensteini, is in honor of Heinrich Breitenstein, a German physician and naturalist who collected amphibians and reptiles in Borneo. Order: Squamata, Suborder: Serpentes, Family: Pythonidae, Genus: Python, Species: Python breitensteini Steindachner, 1880.
Synonyms:
Python breitensteini Steindachner, 1880
Python curtus breitensteini — Stull, 1935
Python curtus breitensteini — Stimson, 1969
Python breitensteini —Keogh, Barker & Shine, 2001

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Scientific Name: Python breitensteini
Species Authority: Steindachner, 1881
Common Names: Bornean Short-tailed Python, Borneo python, Bornean short python, Borneo short-tailed python, Borneo blood python
Synonyms: Python curtus ssp. breitensteini Steindachner, 1881

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