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Genus of snakes

Liasis

Liasis mackloti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Pythonidae
Subfamily:	Pythoninae
Genus:	Liasis Gray, 1842
Species
See text
Synonyms
Liasis Gray, 1840 Liasis Gray, 1842 Simalia Gray, 1849 Lisalia Gray, 1849

Liasis is a genus of pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. Currently, three extant species are recognized and one giant fossil species L. dubudingala, estimated to have been around 10 m (33 ft) in length.

Geographic range

They are found in the Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands, east through New Guinea and in northern and western Australia.

Species	Taxon author	Subsp.*	Common name	Geographic range
L. fuscus	W. Peters, 1873	0	Water python	Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland), the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, Cornwallis Island in the Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea (lower Fly River region) and Indonesia (southern Papua)
L. mackloti	A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844	2	Macklot's python	Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Roti, Samao, Timor, Wetar and Savu
L. olivaceus	Gray, 1842	1	Olive python	Australia in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland

)*Not including the nominate subspecies
)Type species

^ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
^ "Liasis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
Scanlon, J.D.; Mackness, B.S. (2001). "A new giant python from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northeastern Queensland". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 25 (4): 425. doi:10.1080/03115510108619232. S2CID 85185368.

v t e Family Pythonidae
Antaresia	Antaresia childreni Antaresia maculosa Antaresia perthensis
Apodora	Apodora papuana
Aspidites	Aspidites melanocephalus Aspidites ramsayi
Bothrochilus	Bothrochilus boa
Leiopython	Leiopython albertisii Leiopython biakensis Leiopython fredparkeri
Liasis	Liasis fuscus Liasis mackloti Liasis olivaceus
Malayopython	Malayopython reticulatus Malayopython timoriensis
Morelia	Morelia azurea Morelia bredli Morelia carinata Morelia imbricata Morelia spilota Morelia viridis
Nyctophilopython	Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis
Python	Python anchietae Python bivittatus Python breitensteini Python brongersmai Python curtus Python kyaiktiyo Python molurus Python natalensis Python regius Python sebae
Simalia	Simalia amethistina Simalia boeleni Simalia clastolepis Simalia kinghorni Simalia nauta Simalia tracyae

Taxon identifiers
Liasis	Wikidata: Q1914611 Wikispecies: Liasis AFD: Liasis CoL: 6393G EoL: 14121 GBIF: 2465004 iNaturalist: 32190 ITIS: 209584 NCBI: 51886 Paleobiology Database: 66105

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