The "reticulated" net-like patterning that gives the reticulated python its name

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English: The "reticulated" net-like patterning that gives the reticulated python its name
Date 27 October 2014, 02:55:00
Author Kyle Zimmerman
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Retic3.jpg

The reticulated python (Python reticulatus) is a species of python found in Southeast Asia. They are the world's longest snakes and longest reptiles and among the three heaviest snakes. Like all pythons, they are nonvenomous constrictors and normally not considered dangerous to humans. Although large specimens are powerful enough to kill an adult human, attacks are only occasionally reported. An excellent swimmer, P. reticulatus has been reported far out at sea and has colonized many small islands within its range. The specific name, reticulatus, is Latin meaning "net-like", or reticulated, and is a reference to the complex color pattern. Order: Squamata, Suborder: Serpentes, Family: Pythonidae, Genus: Python, Species: Python reticulatus (Schneider, 1801).
Synonyms:
Boa reticulata Schneider, 1801
Boa rhombeata Schneider, 1801
Boa phrygia Shaw, 1802
Coluber javanicus Shaw, 1802
Python schneideri Merrem, 1820
Python reticulatus – Gray, 1842
Python reticulatus – Boulenger, 1893
Morelia reticulatus – Welch, 1988
Python reticulatus – Kluge, 1993
Broghammerus reticulatus – Hoser, 2003/2004
Malayopython reticulatus – R.G. Reynolds et al., 2014