Species Liasis fuscus Peters, 1873
Water Python
- Liasis fuscus Peters, W. 1873. Über eine neue Schildkrötenart, Cinosternon effeldtii und einige andere neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1873: 603-618 [1874 on title page] [607].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB 7840 (presumed lost), Port Clinton (as Port Bowen), QLD. - Liasis cornwallisius Günther, A. 1879. Notice of a collection of reptiles from islands of Torres Straits. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 3: 84-87 [85].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1946.1.10.41, Dauan (as Cornwallis) Is., Torres Strait, QLD. - Nardoa crassa Macleay, W. 1885. On some reptilia lately received from the Herbert River District, Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 64-68 [1886 on title page] [66].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM B5940, 'vicinity of Herbert River', QLD; AM R31886 (third syntype presumed lost). - Katrinus fuscus jackyae Hoser, R. 2003. Five new Australian pythons. Newsletter Macarthur Herpetological Society 40: 4-9 [page number not cited; original publication not seen; information taken from website www.smuggled.com/PytRev11.htm Schleip and O'Shea (2010) consider this name a nomen dubium].
Type data:
Holotype WAM 42796, Kalumburu, WA [14°18'S 126°39'E].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [203]
- Schleip, W.D. & O'Shea, M. 2010. Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution. ZooKeys 66(29-79)
Generic Combinations
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, low open woodland, nocturnal, open forest, oviparous, predator, swamp, terrestrial, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
General carnivore, constrictor, semi-aquatic.
General References
Churchill, G. 1971. Notes on water pythons (Liasis fuscus). Herpetofauna 3: 8 (natural history)
McDowell, S.B. 1975. A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part II. Anilioidea and Pythoninae. Journal of Herpetology 9: 1-79 (taxonomy, as L. mackloti)
Ross, R. & Larman, R. 1977. Captive breeding in two species of python, Liasis albertisii and L. mackloti. International Zoo Yearbook 17: 133-136 (reproduction, as L. mackloti)
Smith, L.A. 1981. A revision of the Liasis olivaceus species-group (Serpentes: Boidae) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9: 227-233 (taxonomy, as. L. mackloti)
Common Name References
CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Water Python)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07-Feb-2024 | BOIDAE | 04-Apr-2016 | MODIFIED | |
| 07-Feb-2024 | 07-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 08-Mar-2011 | 08-Mar-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 25-Aug-2010 | MODIFIED |