Liasis mackloti DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1844

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Higher Taxa	Pythonidae, Henophidia, Pythonoidea, Serpentes (snakes)
Subspecies	Liasis mackloti mackloti DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844 Liasis mackloti dunni STULL 1932 Liasis mackloti savuensis BRONGERSMA 1956
Common Names	E: Macklot's Python G: Macklots Python
Synonym	Liasis Mackloti DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844: 440 Python timorensis MÜLLER 1844 Python timoriensis — MÜLLER 1857 Liasis corwallisius GÜNTHER 1879 Nardoa crassa MACLEAY 1885 Liasis mackloti — BOULENGER 1893: 79 Liasis mackloti — DE ROOIJ 1917: 17 Liasis fuscus PETERS 1873 (fide KLUGE 1993) Morelia mackloti — UNDERWOOD & STIMSON 1990: 603 Liasis mackloti — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 169 Katrinus mackloti — HOSER 2001 Liasis mackloti — ESCORIZA BOI 2005 Liasis mackloti dunni STULL 1932 Liasis dunni — WALLS 1998 Katrinus mackloti dunni — HOSER 2001 Liasis mackloti dunni — RAWLINGS et al. 2004 Liasis dunni — CARMICHAEL 2007 Liasis mackloti savuensis BRONGERSMA 1956 Liasis savuensis — WALLS 1998 Katrinus savuensis — HOSER 2000 Liasis mackloti savuensis — RAWLINGS et al. 2004 Liasis savuensis — VIDAL et al. 2007 Liasis mackloti savuensis — HENDERSON & POWELL 2007
Distribution	Indonesia (Savu = Sawoe, Samoa, Alor, Roti, Semau = Samao, Timor, Wetar, Irian Jaya), Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, coastal N Australia Type locality: Timor Map legend: - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map. NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
Types	Lectotype (BRONGERSMA 1968: 57): MHNP 1625.
Comment	Type species: Liasis Mackloti DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844 is the type species of the genus Liasis GRAY 1842: 44 (fide Stimson and McDowell's 1986 request for conservation of Liasis), otherwise the type species is Liasis childreni, see Williams 1987: 69). Synonymy: Kaiser et al. 2013 rejected the generic name Katrinus Hoser 2000 and synonymized it with Liasis. See comment on Katrinus in Liasis fuscus. BANKS & SCHWANER (1984) describe a hybrid between Morelia spilota and Liasis mackloti.
References	Banks, C., Schwaner, T.D., 1984. Two cases of interspecific hybridization among captive Australian boid snakes [Python spilotes, Python amethistinus, Liasis mackloti.] Zoo Biology 3: 221-227 Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here Brongersma,L.D. 1968. Proposal to Suppress Python timorensis MÜLLER, 1844, and Python timoriensis MÜLLER, 1857, and to Add Python timoriensis (PETERS, 1876) to the Official List (Reptilia, Serpentes, Boidae). Z. N. (S.) 1834. Bull. zool. Nomencl., London, 25: 55-59. Bulian,J. & Broer, W. 1984. Ein seltener Python und seine Nachzucht: Liasis mackloti (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844) (Serpentes: Boidae). Salamandra 20 (4): 205-211 Carmichael, C.K. 2007. PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE INDONESIAN WATER PYTHON, LIASIS MACKLOTI SSP. (SQUAMATA: BOIDAE: PYTHONINAE): A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TOWARD RESOLVING PHYLOGENY. PhD Dissertation, U of S Mississippi, 153 pp. de Rooij, N. DE 1917. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Il. Ophidia. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 334 S. Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1844. Erpetologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol.6. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 609 pp. - get paper here Escoriza Boj, D. 2005. Australia. Reptiles and Amphibians, Part 2: Desert and tropical savanna. Reptilia (GB) (41): 52-57 - get paper here Hoser, Raymond 2000. A Revision of the Australasian pythons. Ophidia Review 1: 7-27 Jan, G. 1864. Iconographie générale des ophidiens. 7. Livraison. J.B. Bailière et Fils, Paris - get paper here Kaiser, H.; Crother, B.I.; Kelly, C.M.R.; Luiselli, L.; O’Shea, M.; Ota, H.; Passos, P.; Schleip, W. 2013. Best Practices: In the 21st Century, Taxonomic Decisions in Herpetology are Acceptable Only When Supported by a Body of Evidence and Published via Peer-Review. Herpetological Review 44 (1): 8-23 Knauf, S. 2000. Haltung und Nachzucht des Neu-Guinea-Wasserpythons (Liasis mackloti mackloti) (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1844). Elaphe 8 (4): 16-21 Knox, Andrew and Kate Jackson 2010. Ecological and phylogenetic influences on maxillary dentition in snakes. Phyllomedusa 9 (2): 121-131 - get paper here McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp. Opferman, R. Regis 1994. The Savu Ialand python (Liasis mackloti savuensis) Reptiles 2 (1): 24-28 O’SHEA, Mark;Caitlin SANCHEZ, Scott HEACOX, Andrew KATHRINER, Venancio LOPES CARVALHO, Agivedo VAREL 2012. First Update to Herpetofaunal Records from Timor-Leste. Asian Herpetological Research 3 (2): 114–126 - get paper here Rawlings, L.H.; Barker, D.; Donnellan, S.C. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships of the Australo-Papuan Liasis pythons (Reptilia: Macrostomata), based on mitochondrial DNA. Australian Journal of Zoology 52 (2): 215-227 - get paper here Schleip, Wulf D & O’Shea, M. 2010. Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution. ZooKeys 66 (2010) : 29-79 - get paper here Underwood, Garth & Stimson,A.F. 1990. A classification of pythons (Serpentes, Pythoninae). Journal of Zoology, London 221: 565-603 Vidal, N., A.-S. Delmas, and S. B. Hedges 2007. The higher-level relationships of alethinophidian snakes inferred from seven nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Pp. 27-33 in R. W. Henderson and R. Powell (Eds.), Biology of the boas and pythons. Eagle Mountain Publishing, Eagle Mountain, Utah - get paper here Vonk, F.J. et al. 2008. Evolutionary origin and development of snake fangs. Nature 454: 630-633 Wilson,S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
External links	http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Boidae/Liasis/mackloti Google images Profile of Liasis mackloti on Reptarium

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