Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.[1]
| Simalia | |
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| Adult High-Yellow Sorong Amethystine Scrub Python | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Pythonidae |
| Genus: | Simalia Gray, 1849 |
| Type species | |
| Simalia amethistina | |
Taxonomy
editSimalia 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
editThe genus Simalia contains the following species:[1]
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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 also 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.
References
edit- ^ a b Simalia at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 June 2022.
- ^ Reynolds, R. Graham; Niemiller, Matthew L.; Revell, Liam J. (2014). "Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 71: 201–213. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011. PMID 24315866.
- ^ "Simalia oenpelliensis (Gow, 1977)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- ^ Woinarski, J.; Gillespie, G.; Greenlees, M.; McDonald, P.; Fenner, A. (2017). "Simalia oenpelliensis ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T42494211A42494251. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T42494211A42494251.en. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 June 2022.
Further reading
edit- Gray JE (1849). Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xv + 125 pp. (Simalia, new genus, p. 91).