Description
Green tree python (Morelia viridis)
Date 3 June 2007, 15:53
Source Green Tree Python http://www.flickr.com/photos/40775750@N00/531138641/
Author Ian Chien from New York, USA http://www.flickr.com/people/40775750@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morelia_viridis.jpg

Morelia viridis, commonly known as the green tree python, or as it is known in the herpetoculture hobby, chondro (due to its former classification in the genus Chondropython) is a species of python found in New Guinea, islands in Indonesia, and Cape York Peninsula in Australia. Order: Squamata, Suborder: Serpentes, Family: Pythonidae, Genus: Morelia, Species: Morelia viridis (Schlegel, 1872).
Synonyms:
Python viridis Schlegel, 1872
Chondropython azureus Meyer, 1874
Chondropython pulcher Sauvage, 1878
Chondropython azureus – W. Peters & Doria, 1878
Chondropython viridis – Boulenger, 1893
Chondropython viridis – Kinghorn, 1928
Chondropython viridis – McDowell, 1975
Morelia viridis – Underwood & Stimson, 1990
Chondropython viridis – Cogger, 1992
M[orelia]. viridis – Kluge, 1993