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Python anchietae
Sign in to saveAlso known as Angolan python, Anchieta's dwarf python
species of reptile
Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassSquamata
- FamilyPythonidae
Observations recorded59
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 33
- Family
- Pythonidae
- Collections
- ASNHC, MVZ, CAS, UMMZ, TCWC, CM
- Recorded in
- United States, Angola, Namibia, South Africa
Wikidata facts
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- Python anchietae
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- Python anchietae
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons gallery
- Python anchietae
- taxon common name
- Angolan Python
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Encyclopedic overview
Python anchietae (with common names Angolan python and Anchieta's dwarf python) is a python species endemic to southern Africa. According to Donald George Broadley (1990), this species is most closely related to the ball python (P. regius) of western Africa, and no subspecies are currently recognized. It is named after the Portuguese naturalist and explorer José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta. Like all other pythons, it is not venomous.
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