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As its common name suggests, it is a bright green snake that can reach a total length (including tail) of 2 m (6.6 ft) and a weight of 1.6 kg (3.5 lb), with females slightly larger and heavier than males. Living generally in trees, the green tree python mainly hunts and eats small reptiles and mammals.
Commonly known as the northern green tree python, this arboreal python was previously included in the Morelia viridis species complex. [ 1 ] According to recent research "Strong genetic structuring of green python populations and species delimitation methods confirm the presence of two species, broadly occurring north and south of New Guinea ...
Green tree python; northern green tree python Papua New Guinea (Biak, Numfor and Supiori in the Schouten Islands group of Cenderawasih Bay) M. bredli (Gow, 1981) 0 Bredl's python; Centralian python Australia, in the mountains of the southern Northern Territory: M. carinata (L.A. Smith, 1981) 0 Rough-scaled python
Toxic agent, serine protease BLTX, in the venom produced by two distinct species, the North American short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) and the Mexican beaded lizard, undergo convergent evolution. Although their structures are similar, it turns out that they increased the enzyme activity and toxicity through different way of structure changes.
The seized animals included an endangered siamang gibbon, two sunda flying lemurs, two green tree pythons, a white-lipped python, nine four-eyed turtles, a red-footed tortoise, ...
Python bodies and blood are used for African traditional medicines and other belief uses as well, one in-depth study of all animals used by the Yorubas of Nigeria for traditional medicine found that the African Python is used to cure rheumatism, snake poison, appeasing witches, and accident prevention.
Diamond python; Flinders python; Green tree python; Halmahera python; Indian python; Indonesian water python; Macklot's python; Moluccan python; Oenpelli python; Olive python; Papuan python; Pygmy python; Red blood python; Reticulated python. Kayaudi dwarf reticulated python; Selayer reticulated python; Rough-scaled python; Royal python; Savu ...
The emerald tree boa appears very similar to the southern green tree python (Morelia viridis) from southeast Asia and Australia. This is an example of convergent evolution: the species are only very distantly related. Physical differences include the head scalation and the location of the heat pits around the mouth.