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Myanmar short-tailed python (Python kyaiktiyo)
| Subject: | Myanmar short-tailed python (Python kyaiktiyo)
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English: Python kyaiktiyo
Date 8 December 2013 (upload date)
Source http://www.arkive.org/python/python-kyaiktiyo/image-G140934.html
Author image credit: © Dept. Vertebrate Zoology – Amphibians & Reptiles, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Photographer, G.R. Zug
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P.kyaiktiyo_II.png
Python kyaiktiyo, commonly known as the Myanmar short-tailed python, is a species of python found in Myanmar (Burma). The Myanmar short-tailed python is a non-venomous, ovoviparous constrictor that grows up to 1.83 meters in length. The specific name, kyaiktiyo, is in honor of the Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, a significant Buddhist pilgrimage site in Myanmar. Order: Squamata, Suborder: Serpentes, Family: Pythonidae, Genus: Python, Species: Python kyaiktiyo Zug, Gotte & Jacobs, 2011.
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Scientific Name: Python kyaiktiyo Zug, Gotte & Jacobs, 2011
Common Names: Myanmar short-tailed python, Burma python
Taxonomic Notes: This very recently-described snake is a member of the Python curtus species complex (with P. curtus, P. brongersmai, and P. breitensteini), and was briefly considered to represent a disjunct record of P. brongersmai (Zug et al. 2011). |
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