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Morelia Discription...

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Posted by: Tormato at Sat Dec 13 06:29:22 2003  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Tormato ]  
   

Hi guys. I love this taxonomy stuff, but it has me confused a lot of times. Ive been trying to find out why exactly there are gneres...for pythons that it. Okay- morelia, python, liasis- etc etc. Why? This is copied from a site describing morelia.. "pits in the labial scales. The head is covered with either small irregular or large symmetrical shields. The tail is prehensile".

First, angoloan pythons have beady head scales and prehensile tails, so why arent they in morelia? And scrubs have huge plated head scales so why arent they in the python complex? Makes no sence. Also, Ive had ball pythons that would beg to differ about the pits. They have infra-labial and supralabial pits. Are people taking this genus/taxa thing seriously anyways? This seems a little weird-
Also, is there a page where it breaks down the differences in genesus? Thanks a lot for any kind of replies..
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