Children's Pythons
Antaresia
Antaresia is a genus of pythons, non-venomous snakes found in Australia. The genus is known by the common name Children's pythons, the name of the type species. Gray named it in honour of his mentor, John George Children, who was a curator of the zoological collection at the British Museum around that time. It contains the smallest members of Pythonidae. Currently, four species are recognized.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Children's Python
speciesAntaresia childreni
Spotted Python
speciesAntaresia maculosa
Pygmy Python
speciesAntaresia perthensis
Papuan Spotted Python
speciesAntaresia papuensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 32137.