Python regius (Shaw, 1802)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 256

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E23714-8973-4755-BC94-0A751D7D2B37

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7968198

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88502B73-FF65-B889-FF6B-45437A390CC6

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Python regius (Shaw, 1802)
status

 

Python regius (Shaw, 1802) View in CoL — Non-native; Introduced.

Ball Python

Singapore records.

Python regius N. Baker, 2020c: 99 (Old Upper Thomson Road ) .

Remarks. Recently on 24 April 2020, a P. regius was found along the drain running along OUTR (Baker 2020). Python regius is native to western and central Africa (Wallach et al. 2014); thus, the snake was most certainly a released pet. Python regius is popular in the pet trade, and is celebrated for its exorbitant number of captive-bred colour morphs. The individual featured in Baker (2020) was identified as a “killer blast” morph.

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Pythonidae

Genus

Python

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