Blood pythons

The division of living beings into systematics is a continuous subject of research. Different systematic classifications exist side by side and one after the other. The taxon treated here has become obsolete due to new research or is not part of the group systematics presented in the German-language Wikipedia.

As blood pythons were formerly three subspecies of Python curtus , a Python -Art called. Since 2001 they have been classified as separate species:

• Blood python ( Python brongersmai )
• Sumatran short-tailed python ( Python curtus )
• Borneo short-tailed python ( Python broadsteini )

Since only P. brongersmai has red shades, the German name blood python is due to him today .

literature

• J. Scott Keogh, David G. Barker and Richard Shine: Heavily exploited but poorly known: systematics and biogeography of commercially harvested pythons (Python curtus group) in Southeast Asia. In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 73, 2001, pp. 113–129 ( online publication; English; PDF; 257 kB ).