One other little detail Ray overlooked was the genus Enygrus Wagler, 1830, type species Enygrus regius = Python regius.

Even if one accepts any need to split Python in the post-Kluge sense, this makes Shireenhoserus a synonym of Enygrus (mercifully), unless anyone feels a strong urge to put anchietae in a separate genus from all other Pythons including regius. So off Shireenhoserus goes to the Recycle Bin - **PLONK**

It's amazing what one discover by simply spending just 2 minutes looking at *the* standard work for python taxonomy, nomenclature and synonymy (McDiarmid et al. 1999, Snake Species of the World)

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