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This is a list of all extant genera, species, and subspecies of the snakes of the family Pythonidae, otherwise referred to as pythonids or true pythons.It follows the taxonomy currently provided by ITIS, [1] which is based on the continuing work of Roy McDiarmid [2] and has been updated with additional recently described species.
On June 14, 2018, a 54-year-old woman named Wa Tiba, also of Sulawesi, was also eaten by a reticulated python that had slithered into her garden at her home. [12] [13] In 2022 another 54-year old missing Sumatran woman from Jambi named Jahrah [14] was found inside a python, making this the third fully documented swallowing of an adult human. [15]
The generic name Python was proposed by French naturalist François Marie Daudin in 1803. [12] American zoologist Arnold G. Kluge performed a cladistics analysis on morphological characters and recovered the reticulated python lineage as sister to the genus Python, hence not requiring a new generic name in 1993. [13]