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Default Dwarf molurus is a subspecies

Python molurus split and new subspecies
The taxonomy of the burmese python have been quite stable for quite a lot of years - only fuss have been about the validity of the Sri Lanka form pimbura Deraniyagala, 1945, which it seems most scientists today agree on being just a variation of the typeform (molurus).

A new study by Jacobs, Auliya and B�hme (2009), focusing on the taxonomy of bivittatus, conclude, based on behaviour and morphology and the fact that bivittatus populations are found isolated within the distribution of typical molurus, without any evidence of hybridizing, that bivittatus is a seperate species from molurus.

Besides of this, the Sulawesi form of burmese python, is shown to be a dwarf form, rarely exciding 200 cm, isolated from other bivittatus geographically, and differentiated by egg size and juvenile size, less than half the size of typical bivittatus. This form is described as a new subspecies - Python bivittatus progschai
The Burmese python taxonomy therefore are as follows.

* Python bivittatus bivittatus (Kuhl, 1820) - Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam
* Python bivittatus progschai (Jacobs, Auliya & B�hme, 2009) - Sulawesi
* Python molurus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

info source:
http://jangrathwohl.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... ecies.html
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