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Morelia viridis, commonly known as the Green Python or Green Tree Python, is a species of snake within the family Pythonidae. It belongs to the genus Morelia and is classified under the class Squamata, phylum Chordata, and kingdom Animalia. The species was originally described by Schlegel in 1872. Its habitat includes forests and land environments.
The IUCN Red List assessed the conservation status of Morelia viridis as Least Concern in 2018. Records of the species have been documented in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and the United States, as well as in locations listed as unknown or invalid. Various institutions, including RBINS-Scientific Heritage, MVZ, ANWC, CAS, and USNM, hold records related to this taxon.
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Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyPythonidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 889
- With media
- 27
- Family
- Pythonidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, MVZ, ANWC, CAS, USNM, UWZM
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, United States, Unknown Or Invalid, Indonesia
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- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Morelia viridis
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- Morelia viridis
- taxon common name
- grønn trepyton
- taxon author citation
- (Schlegel, 1872)
- habitat
- land
- short name
- M. viridis
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Encyclopedic overview
The green tree python (Morelia viridis), is a species of snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is native to New Guinea, some islands in Indonesia, and the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. First described by Hermann Schlegel in 1872, it was known for many years as Chondropython viridis. 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. It is a popular pet, and numbers in the wild have suffered with large-scale smuggling of wild-caught green tree pythons in Indonesia. Despite this, the green tree python is rated as least concern on the IUCN Red List of endangered species.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morelia viridis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.