Full reference: F.-M. Daudin. 1803. Divison des ophidiens en vingt-trois genres. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Societé Philomatique 3:187-188
Parent taxon: Boidae according to N. Frank and E. Ramus 1996
See also Carroll 1988 and Scanlon and Mackness 2002
Sister taxa: Boinae, Cadurcoboa, Candoia, Charina, Chilabothrus, Daunophis, Dawsonophis, Erycinae, Eunectes, Hechtophis, Lithophis, Messelophis, Neurodromicus, Palaeopython, Paleryx, Paraplatyspondylia, Plesiotortrix, Rageophis, Rieppelophis, Totlandophis, Tropidophiinae, Tropidophis, Ungaliophiinae
Subtaxa: Python cadurcensis Python euboicus Python maurus Python regius Python sebae
Ecology: carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Eritrea (2 collections), Ethiopia (1), Niger (2), Sudan (2), Tanzania (3), Thailand (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (1), Tanzania (2), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Uganda (3)
• Miocene of Chad (1), France (3), Germany (2), Greece (1), India (3), Morocco (1), Namibia (5), Pakistan (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (2), Thailand (1)
Total: 42 collections including 44 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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