Morelia riversleighensis (Smith & Plane, 1985) - Scanlon, 2001

Schleip, Wulf D. & O'Shea, Mark, 2010, Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, ZooKeys 66, pp. 29-80 : 45

Morelia riversleighensis (Smith & Plane, 1985) - Scanlon, 2001

Remarks:

Smith and Plane (1985) documented significantly lesser curvature in the teeth of this taxon, to that found in species of the genera Python and Morelia , and because “… of the slight curvature of the dentary teeth …” ( Smith and Plane 1985: 194) the authors considered this taxon more closely related to Morelia than to Python .