Borneo python (Python breitensteini) Description
The Borneo Short-tail Python is endangered due to poaching for its attractive skin. This one is safe at the Serpentarium in Mendoza, Argentina. In context at http://www.dixpix.ca/indonesia/fauna/reptiles/index.html
Date 10 March 2014, 19:02
Source Python breitensteini https://www.flickr.com/photos/92252798@N07/13106752324/
Author Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada https://www.flickr.com/people/92252798@N07
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Python_breitensteini_(13106752324).jpg
The Borneo python (Python breitensteini) is a species of non venomous python endemic to the island of Borneo. Other common names include Bornean short python and Borneo short-tailed python. The specific name, breitensteini, is in honor of Heinrich Breitenstein, a German physician and naturalist who collected amphibians and reptiles in Borneo. Order: Squamata, Suborder: Serpentes, Family: Pythonidae, Genus: Python, Species: Python breitensteini Steindachner, 1880.
Synonyms:
Python breitensteini Steindachner, 1880
Python curtus breitensteini — Stull, 1935
Python curtus breitensteini — Stimson, 1969
Python breitensteini —Keogh, Barker & Shine, 2001