exert from
[FONT="]Remarks: [/FONT]
[FONT="]Kluge (1993) synonymized [/FONT]
[FONT="]Liasis[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]fuscus[/FONT][FONT="] Peters, 1873 with [/FONT]
[FONT="]Liasis[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]mackloti[/FONT][FONT="] 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 [/FONT]
[FONT="]Katrinus[/FONT][FONT="]. Henderson and Powell (2007) did not recognize any subspecies within [/FONT]
[FONT="]Liasis[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]fuscus[/FONT][FONT="], a position followed herein. Some authors refer to this taxon as [/FONT]
[FONT="]Liasis[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]mackloti[/FONT][FONT="] Duméril & Bibron (e.g., Hay 2007).
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[FONT="]Zookeys 66: 29–80, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.66.683[/FONT]
[FONT="]Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution [/FONT]
[FONT="]Wulf D. Schleip1, Mark O’Shea2,3 [/FONT]
[FONT="]1
Fichtenweg 11, 53340 Meckenheim, Germany [/FONT]
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Australian Venom Research Unit, Dept. Pharmacology, University of Melbourne, Vic., 3010, Australia [/FONT]
[FONT="]3
Reptile Department, West Midland Safari Park, Bewdley, Worcs., DY12 1LF, United Kingdom [/FONT]
[FONT="]Corresponding author: Wulf D. Schleip ([/FONT]
[FONT="][email protected][/FONT][FONT="]). [/FONT]
[FONT="]Academic editor: Hans-Dieter Sues[/FONT]
[FONT="]received 11 December 2009 | accepted 22 September 2010 | Published 4 November 2010[/FONT]
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[FONT="](C) 2010 Wulf D. Schleip. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the [/FONT]
[FONT="]Creative Commons Attribution License[/FONT][FONT="], which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.[/FONT]