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Children's python |
Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory Photo © Stewart Macdonald |
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Antaresia childreni | ||||||||||||
Pronunciation | ann-tahr-EE-zee-ah CHILL-dren-ee | |||||||||||
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Etymology |
Antaresia: after the star Antares in the tail of the constellation Scorpius.
childreni: after John George Children (an English naturalist responsible for the zoological collection at the British Museum in the first half of the 19th century), not because they make good children's pets. |
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Other names |
Northern brown python
Liasis childreni Bothrochilus childreni |
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Description | Distribution | Natural history | Conservation | Further information | More photos |
RangeNorth-west Queensland, across the top part of the Northern Territory, across into the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Found in the following Australian states/territoriesNorthern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia HabitatRocky outcrops, hills, escarpments, caves, dry forests. |
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