Australian Scrub Python
Simalia kinghorni
- Class
- Reptile
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 988
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
Description
The Australian scrub python (Simalia kinghorni), also known commonly as Kinghorn's python and simply as the scrub python is a species of snake in the family Pythonidae. The species is indigenous to forests of northern Australia. It is one of the world's longest and largest snakes, and is the longest and largest in Australia. In 2014 it was reclassified to the genus Simalia from Morelia, alongside the rest of the scrub python species.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Australian scrub python”.