Timor python

The Timor python is a fairly long, over {{convert|7|ft|m|abbr=on}}, but relatively thin python. It has a series of heat-sensing pits between its nostrils and mouth used to find warm-blooded prey in total darkness. It is cold-blooded.Mehrtens JM (1987). Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. {{ISBN|0-8069-6460-X}}.

M. timoriensis is found in Southeast Asia on the Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores, Lombien and Timor islands), its type locality is given as "Kupang, (Timor)" [Indonesia]. This may not accurately reflect the location where the specimen was collected.{{cite journal | last1=O'Shea | first1 = Mark | author-link = Mark O'Shea (herpetologist) |title=Reconciling Unexpected Collection Localities for Three New Guinea Worm-eating Snakes (Toxicocalamus, Serpentes, Elapidae) Using Historical Accounts |year=2018 |journal=Herpetological Review|volume=49|issue=2|pages=189-207}}

M. timoriensis is partly arboreal."Malayopython timoriensis ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Captive specimens of M. timoriensis have been known to accept birds and small mammals.

M. timoriensis is oviparous.

Liasis amethystinus var. timoriensis was the scientific name proposed by Wilhelm Peters in 1876.Peters W (1876). "Über die von S. M. S. Gazelle mitgebrachten Amphibien ". Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876: 528–535 + Plate. (Liasis amethystinus var. timoriensis, new variety, p. 533 + Plate, figures 3, 3a, 3b, 3c). (in German).

Authors of a phylogenetic study suggested that the Timor python together with the reticulated python should be moved to a distinct genus Broghammerus. Subsequent phylogenetic analyses have supported the separation of the Timor and reticulated pythons from genus Python. However, Broghammerus is considered an invalid name by most authorities, which made R. Graham Reynolds et al. formally rename this clade Malayopython in 2014, a decision that was followed by many authors.{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011|author=Reynolds RG, Niemiller ML, Revell LJ|title=Toward a tree-of-life for the boas and pythons: multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling|year=2014|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=71|pages=201–213|pmid=24315866}}{{cite journal|title=Best Practices: In the 21st Century, Taxonomic Decisions in Herpetology are Acceptable Only When Supported by a Body of Evidence and Published via Peer-Review|url=http://www.markoshea.info/downloads/Kaiser-et-al-2013.pdf|author=Kaiser H, Crother BI, Kelly CMR, Luiselli L, O'Shea M, Ota H, Passos P, Schleip W, Wüster W|year=2013|journal=Herpetological Review|volume=44|issue=1|pages=8–23}}{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/zoj.12267|vauthors=Barker DG, Barker TM, Davis MA, Schuett GW|title=A review of the systematics and taxonomy of Pythonidae: an ancient serpent lineage|year=2015|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=175|pages=1–19|url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-pdf/175/1/1/16876780/zoj12267.pdf|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/bij.12744 |vauthors=Booth W, Schuett GW |title=The emerging phylogenetic pattern of parthenogenesis in snakes |year=2016 |journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=118|issue=2|pages=172–186|doi-access=free}}

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• Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I. Containing the Families ... Boidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. ("Python timorensis [sic]", p. 85).

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• {{NRDB species|genus=Malayoython|species=timoriensis|date=06 January|year=2021}}

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Category:Pythonidae

Category:Reptiles of Timor

Category:Reptiles of Indonesia

Category:Reptiles described in 1876

Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters