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Aspidites

Aspidites

Peters, 1877

GBIF:159360556

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Genus Aspidites Peters, 1877

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Henderson and Powell (2007) and Swan (2007) did not list subspecies within Aspidites . Aspidites was considered most primitive within the Pythonidae (e.g., Stimson and Underwood 1990, Kluge 1993) due to a lack of thermoreceptive pits in the labial scales. However, current research (Westhoff and Collin 2008) has revealed that Aspidites possesses a single thermoreceptive pit within the rostralia.

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: 29-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.683, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.683Pensoft via PlaziNo known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

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Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article 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: 29-80, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.683, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.683

Schleip W D, O'Shea M, pensoft (2010). Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.683 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-14.

CC0Published 12/31/2010View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
159360556
Dataset Key
a164e717-82d3-4b7b-abb9-2e202a7a1597
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2465283
Taxon ID
58FE5E6175ABC79FA2485CA0D94C605A.taxon
Last Crawled
6/10/2026
Last Interpreted
6/10/2026