Liasis
{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}
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| image = Liasis mackloti savuensis 2.jpg
| image_caption = Liasis mackloti
| taxon = Liasis
| authority = Gray, 1842
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms =
- Liasis Gray, 1840
- Liasis Gray, 1842
- Simalia Gray, 1849
- Lisalia Gray, 1849McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).
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Liasis is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae. Species of the genus Liasis are native to Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. Currently, three extant species are recognized,{{ITIS |id=209584 |taxon=Liasis |access-date=10 September 2007}} and one giant fossil species L. dubudingala is estimated to have been around 10 m (33 ft) in length.{{Cite journal |doi=10.1080/03115510108619232 |title=A new giant python from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northeastern Queensland |journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=425 |year=2001 |last1=Scanlon |first1=J.D. |author1-link=species:John David Scanlon |last2=Mackness |first2=B.S. |author2-link=species:Brian Mackness |s2cid=85185368}}
Geographic range
Liasis species are found in Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands, east through New Guinea and in northern and western Australia.
Species
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!bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Taxon author !bgcolor="#f0f0f0"|Common name |
| L. fuscus
|W. Peters, 1873 |align="center"|0 |water python |style="width:40%"|Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland), the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, Cornwallis Island in the Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea (lower Fly River region) and Indonesia (southern Papua) |
| L. macklotiT
|A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844 |align="center"|2 |Macklot's python |Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Roti, Samao, Timor, Wetar and Savu |
| L. olivaceus
|Gray, 1842 |align="center"|1 |olive python |Australia in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland |
)*Not including the nominate subspecies
References
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External links
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- {{NRDB genus|genus=Liasis|date=10 September|year=2007}}
{{Pythonidae}}
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Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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