Python euboicus Roemer , 1870

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 : 51

Python euboicus Roemer, 1870 [extinct species, considered nomen dubium by Rage 1984]

Synonyms:

Python Euboicus Römer, 1870

Heteropython euboicus ( Römer) - de Rochebrune 1880

Heteropython euboicus ( Römer) - Kuhn 1939, 1963

Python euboicus Römer - Rage 1984

Holotype:

Fragment of the trunk portion of the vertebral column (25 vertebrae and ribs), left dentary. No accession number. According to Szyndlar (1991) the holotype is probably lost.

Type locality:

Kimi (Euboea, Greece), early Miocene (MN?3).

Remarks:

See Szyndlar (1991) and Szyndlar and Rage (2003: 67-68) for further information.