SWCP males bigger than females?

[user 30368]

South West Carpet Pythons - Are the males bigger than femals, or the other way around? Or is it much of a muchness and sex dousn't dictate its size?

 

[Matt-to-the-K]

From what I've heard and seen, the females are larger than males

 

[ShaunMorelia]

Check out the paper by D.Pearson, R.Shine & R.How called
"Sex-Specific niche patitioning and sexual size dimorphism in Australian Pythons (Morelia spilota imbricata)"

Was published in 2002.

If I remember correctly is did say something about the size differences in male and females of the SWC Pythons.

 

[murrayanddig]

there is a population of imbricata on one of the islands of ceduna SA, which apparently has very small males, when compared to the females

 

[Snowman]

females seem to get bigger

 

[Boidae]

As with all Carpet pythons, the females will generally be bigger than males.
But the amount of food they are given and the size of their parents will both effect the adult size.

 

[user 30368]

Thanks for the info everyone