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Liasis

Osteichthyes - Pythonidae

Taxonomy
Liasis was named by Gray (1842). It is extant.

It was assigned to Boidae by Gray (1842); and to Pythoninae by Kluge (1993), Scanlon and Mackness (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1842Liasis Gray p. 44
1993Liasis Kluge p. 51
2002Liasis Scanlon and Mackness p. 427

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Squamata()
suborderOphidia(Latreille 1804)
Serpentes(Linnaeus 1758)
infraorderAlethinophidia
Henophidia
familyPythonidae(Fitzinger 1826)
genusLiasis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Liasis Gray 1842
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Liasis dubudingala Scanlon and Mackness 2002
Liasis olivacea Gray 1842 [olive python]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available