As the other poster said they were known as Asian rock pythons in earlier days. However just like Burmese Python this is nothing more than a common name as far as common names go you could call it a trailer park python or a mynamar python or a fat ugly brown snake or whatever else you could think of but the official name of this snake is Python molurus bivittatus. The whole purpose of Carl Linnee's binomial nomenclature system was to provide a universal system for the scientific community (and ultimately the legal community as well) There are many species that occur in many different countries that end up having muliptle aliases in different languages so this helps clear that up. Goanna and Leguan are corruptions of iguana. of course Igaunas are iguanas and the former are Varanus species. Leaf tailed geckoes refer to Uroplatus geckoes and also an Australian genus of Geckoes as well. Then there's black snakes that could refer to god only knows how many different species of snakes. Like I said common names are just that it's the latin that matters in science and in law.

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