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Aspidites melanocephalus (Krefft, 1864)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Krefft, G. Description of Aspidiotes melanocephalus, a new snake from Port Denison, N.E. Australia.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Squamata
family
Pythonidae
genus
Aspidites
species
Aspidites melanocephalus

Name

Synonyms
Aspidiotes melanocephalus Krefft, 1864
Aspidites melanocephalus adelynensis Hoser, 2001
Aspidites melanocephalus davieii Hoser, 2001
Aspidites melanocephalus rickjonesii Hoser, 2009
Homonyms
Aspidites melanocephalus (Krefft, 1864)
Common names
Black-headed Python in English
Black-headed Python in English
Black-headed Python in English
Python à tête noire in French
Python à tête noire d'Australie in French
Pyton czarnogłowy in Polish
Schwarzkopfpython in German
Schwarzkopfpython in German
Sorthovedet Pyton in Danish
feketefejű piton in Hungarian
krajta černohlavá in Czech
Черноголовый питон in Russian
盾蟒 in Chinese
Black-headed Python in English

Bibliographic References

  1. McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999: null. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. xi + 511.
  2. Wallach, Van, Kenneth L. Williams, and Jeff Boundy, 2014: null. Snakes of the World. A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. 1209.
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