Stimson's python (Antaresia stimsoni) Description
English: Stimson's Python – Antaresia stimsoni, photographed at Springbrook, Queensland, April 1979. This species is one of the Children's Python group, formerly believed to be the one species, now reclassified as four seperate species.
Date 7 February 2007
Source http://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/image/3883
Author John Wombey, CSIRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research_Organisation
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_3883_Stimsons_Python.jpg
Antaresia stimsoni is a python found in Australia. The snake is named Stimson's python in honour of A. F. Stimson of the British Museum, but is commonly and incorrectly referred to as Stimpson's python (Antaresia stimpsoni). These snakes are sold and kept as pets in some Australian states. The species is also referred as the large-blotched python for the patterns of its markings, or in reference to its genus as an inland Children's python. Order: Squamata, Suborder: Serpentes, Family: Pythonidae, Genus: Antaresia, Species: Antaresia stimsoni (L.A. Smith, 1985).
Synonyms:
Antaresia saxacola - Wells & Wellington, 1985 (Nomen nudum)
Liasis stimsoni stimsoni - L.A. Smith, 1985
Liasis stimsoni orientalis - L.A. Smith, 1985
Morelia stimsoni - Underwood & Stimson, 1990
Liasis stimsoni - Cogger, 1992
A[ntaresia]. stimsoni - Kluge, 1993