Bothrochilus Fitzinger, 1843

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 : 39

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.683

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2FAB4423-3174-4EA0-A5CA-0E9606A71AD6

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1EA96032-A6FD-8476-1DF8-71B27FBEEB78

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scientific name

Bothrochilus Fitzinger, 1843
status

 

Genus Bothrochilus Fitzinger, 1843 View in CoL View at ENA

Remarks:

Rawlings et al. (2008) identified a sister-group relationship of this monotypic genus with Leiopython , which they also considered monotypic. They proposed synonymy of Leiopython with Bothrochilus , with the latter being the senior synonym. Also see comments on Leiopython .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Pythonidae