Python bivittatus

The python is the largest snake species in Nepal and it is distributed from Nepalese Terai up to 2,800 m elevation in Nepal (Bhattarai et al. 2017). In the PNP, the species was observed from Bhata, Amlekhgunj-Hattisar, Halkhoria Daha, and Ramauli Pratapur (Fig. 21). The PNP has dry sub-tropical habitat and gets incidental fire. One injured python was found with wounds inside the park at Kamini Daha.

Sumber: Amphibians and reptiles of Parsa National Park, Nepal

Distribution: See Greene et al. (2007), Snow et al. (2007), Pyron et al. (2008), and Barker and Barker (2009) for notes on introduced populations in Florida, USA. For distribution in Nepal, see O'Shea (1998), for distribution in Asia see Pauwels et al. (2003), (Barker and Barker (2008, 2010). Barker and Barker (2010) considered records of the occurrence of bivittatus in the Sichuan Province deviant due to complete isolation from the natural range of bivittatus and therefore excluded the province from the range of occurrence. Records from Sumatra and Borneo are believed to be incorrectly identified (Haile 1958, Groombridge and Luxmoore 1991).

Sumber: Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution