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Morelia carinata (SMITH, 1981)

IUCN Red List - Morelia carinata - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaPythonidae, Henophidia, Pythonoidea, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Rough-scaled Python
G: Rauhschuppenpython 
SynonymPython carinatus SMITH 1981
Morelia carinata — KLUGE 1993
Python carinatus — WALLS 1995
Morelia carinata — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 172
Morelia carinata — COGGER 2000: 612
Jackypython carinata — HOSER 2009
Morelia carinata — SCHLEIP & O’SHEA 2010
Morelia carinata — REYNOLDS et al. 2014
Morelia carinata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 452
Morelia carinata — EIPPER & EIPPER 2024: 47 
DistributionAustralia (Northern coastal area of Western Australia)

Type locality: Mitchell River Falls (14°50’S, 125° 42’E), WA, Australia  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: WAM R45352 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Distinguished from other species of Python by having keeled dorsal scales (Smith 1981)


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CommentAbundance: very rare; from 1981 to 2007 only about 10 specimens have been found (Mattison 2007).

Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “carinatus” = keeled (like a ship). 
References
  • Alcini, S. 2009. Seltene und wenig bekannte Pythons aus Australien - Teil 1: Der Rauhschuppenpython, Morelia carinata. Reptilia (Münster) 14 (79): 28-32 - get paper here
  • Biswas, A., Ghosh, A., & Agashe, M. 2025. In ‘hot’pursuit: exploring the evolutionary ecology of labial pits in boas and pythons. Proceedings B, 292(2045), 20250199 - get paper here
  • Cogger, H. G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 7th ed. CSIRO Publishing, xxx + 1033 pp. - get paper here
  • Cogger, H.G. 2000. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, 6th ed. Ralph Curtis Publishing, Sanibel Island, 808 pp.
  • Eipper T & Eipper S 2024. SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 368 pp. - get paper here
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
  • Hoser, R. 2009. Creationism and contrived science: a review of recent python systematics papers and the resolution of issues of taxonomy and nomenclature. Australasian J. Herpetol. 2: 1-34 - get paper here
  • Kluge, Arnold G. 1993. Aspidites and the phylogeny of Pythonine snakes. Rec. Austral. Mus. (Supplement 19): 1-77 - get paper here
  • Krug, O. 2016. Morelia carinata – Der etwas andere Python! Reptilia 21 (118): 34-39 - get paper here
  • McDiarmid, R.W.; Campbell, J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. [type catalogue] Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
  • Mense, M. 2004. A Review of the Australo-Papuan Carpet Python complex (Morelia bredli, Morelia carinata and Morelia spilota), with a key to the species. Litteratura Serpentium 24 (4): 178-204
  • Mense, M. 2006. Rautenpythons - Morelia bredli, Morelia carinata und der Morelia-spilota-komplex. Natur und Tier Verlag, Münster, 207 pp. - get paper here
  • Mense, M. 2016. Python-Schönheiten von der anderen Seite der Welt: Morelia, die Baum- und Rautenpythons. Reptilia 21 (118): 18-26 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Reynolds, R. Graham; Matthew L. Niemiller, Liam J. Revell 2014. Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 201–213 [published online in 2013] - 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
  • Smith L A 1981. A revision of the python genera Aspidites and Python (Serpentes: Boidae) in Western Australia. Rec. West. Austr. Mus. 9 (2): 211-226 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Walls, J.G. 1995. The living pythons - A complete guide to the pythons of the world. TFH Publications, 256 pp.
  • Weigel, John; Russell, Trent 1993. A record of a third specimen of the rough-scaled python Morelia carinata. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 23 (2): 1-5
  • Wilson, S. & Swan, G. 2010. A complete guide to reptiles of Australia, 3rd ed. Chatswood: New Holland, 558 pp.
  • Winchell, S. 2009. Pythons Australiens. Reptilia (Münster) 14 (79): 16-27 - get paper here
 
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