Species profile—Simalia kinghorni (amethystine python (Australian form))
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Reptilia (reptiles) → Boidae (pythons) → Simalia kinghorni (amethystine python (Australian form))
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Reptilia (reptiles)
- Family
- Boidae (pythons)
- Scientific name
- Simalia kinghorni (Stull, 1933)
- Common name
- amethystine python (Australian form)
- Type reference
- Stull, O.G. (1933) Two new subspecies of the family Boidae. Occassional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 267: 1-4. Holotype MCZ 35022, type locality Lake Barrine, Qld. Aust.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 533
- Synonym(s)
- Morelia kinghorni
Australiasis kinghorni
Liasis amethistinus kinghorni
Liasis amethystinus
Constrictor amethystinus
Python amethystinus
Boa amethistina
Morelia amethistina - Alternate name(s)
- scrub python
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=533.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
