Liasis fuscus Peters, 1873

Schleip, Wulf D. & O'Shea, Mark, 2010, Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, ZooKeys 66, pp. 29-80 : 43

Liasis fuscus Peters, 1873

Synonyms:

Katrinus fuscus (Peters) - Hoser 2000

Liasis fuscus Peters - Rawlings et al. 2004; Henderson and Powell 2007

Katrinus fuscus fuscus (Peters) - Hoser 2000

Katrinus fuscus cornwallisius ( Günther, 1879) - Hoser 2000

Remarks:

Kluge (1993) synonymized Liasis fuscus Peters, 1873 with Liasis mackloti Duméril & Bibron, 1844. However, Rawlings et al. (2004) demonstrated that specimens from Queensland (the type locality of this taxon), the Torres Strait islands (Saibai), and New Guinea form a well-supported clade, which is considered the sister group to the clade comprising the Northern Territory and Indonesian populations. Also see comments on Katrinus . Henderson and Powell (2007) did not recognize any subspecies within Liasis fuscus , a position followed herein. Some authors refer to this taxon as Liasis mackloti Duméril & Bibron (e.g., Hay 2007).