Australian scrub python

Not to be confused with Amethystine python.

Simalia kinghorni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Pythonidae
Genus: Simalia
Species:
S. kinghorni
Binomial name
Simalia kinghorni
(Stull, 1933)
Synonyms[1]
  • Liasis amethistinus kinghorni
    Stull, 1933
  • Australiasis kinghorni
    — Wells & Wellington, 1984
  • Morelia kinghorni
    — Harvey et al., 2000
  • Simalia kinghorni
    — Reynolds et al., 2014
Releasing a scrub python back to the wild, near Cooktown. 1999

The Australian scrub python (Simalia kinghorni), also known commonly as Kinghorn's python and simply as the scrub python is a species of snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is indigenous to forests of northern Australia. It is one of the world's longest and largest snakes, and is the longest and largest in Australia. In 2014 it was reclassified to the genus Simalia alongside a few other former Morelia species, but scientific debate over this continues.

  1. ^ Species Simalia kinghorni at The Reptile Database