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{{Short description|Species of snake}}

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| image = LeiopythonFerme des Reptiles - Bothrochilus albertisii 03.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

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*''Liasis albertisii'' <br>{{small|— [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1893}}

*''Liasis fuscus albertisii'' <br>{{small|— [[Olive Griffith Stull|Stull]], 1935}}

*''Liasis fuscus albertisi'' <br>{{small|— [[species:Lilia Capocaccia|Capocaccia]], 1961}}

*''Liasis fuscus albertisii'' <br>{{small|— [[species:Andrew Francis Stimson|Stimson]], 1969}}

*''Liasis albertisi'' <br>{{small|— [[species:Karl-Heinz Switak|Switak]], 1973}}

*''Liasis albertisii'' <br>{{small|— [[species:Samuel Booker McDowell, Jr.|McDowell]], 1975}}

*''Bothrochilus albertisii'' <br>{{small|— [[Harold Cogger|H.G. Cogger]], [[species:Elizabeth E. Cameron|Cameron]] & <br>[[species:Heather M. Cogger|H.M. Cogger]], 1983}}

*''Lisalia albertisi'' <br>{{small|— [[Richard Walter Wells|Wells]] & [[Cliff Ross Wellington|Wellington]], 1984}}

*''Morelia albertisii'' <br>{{small|— [[:fr:Garth Underwood|Underwood]] & Stimson, 1990}}

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*''Leiopython albertisi'' <br>{{small|— [[Mark O'Shea (herpetologist)|O'Shea]], 1996}}

*''Leiopython albertisii'' <br>{{small|— O'Shea, 1996}}<ref name="McD99"/>

*''Bothrochilus albertisii'' <br>{{small|— [[R,species:Robert Graham Reynolds|Reynolds]] et al., 2014}}<ref>{{EMBL species|genus=Bothrochilus|species=albertisii}}. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

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'''D'Albertis' python''' ('''''Leiopython albertisii''')'', also known [[Common name|commonly]] as '''D'Albert's water python''' or the '''northern white-lipped python''', is a [[species]] of [[Python (genus)|python]], a non-[[venomous snake]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Pythonidae]]. The species is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[New Guinea]]. There are no [[subspecies]] that are recognized as being valid.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=634409 |taxon=''Leiopython'' |accessdate=9 September 2007}}</ref>

==Geographic range and habitat==

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The [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] given is "''Kapaor in Nova Guinea boreali occidentali ... et prope Andai'' ". The authors also stated localities for two additional specimens: "''...&nbsp;un esemplare a Kapaor fra i Papua Onin...''" and "''...&nbsp;un secondo esemplare ad Andai presso Dorei...''" (= Kapoar, Onin Peninsula and Andai, near Dorei, Irian Jaya, Indonesia).<ref name="McD99">[[:fr:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|McDiarmid RW]], [[Jonathan A. Campbell|Campbell JA]], [[species:T'Shaka A. Touré|Touré TA]] (1999). ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1''. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).</ref>

Some doubt can be cast on its occurrence on Normanby, as McDowell (1975)<ref name="McDow1975">[[species:Samuel Booker McDowell, Jr. |McDowell SB]] (1975). "A catalogue of the snakes of New Guinea and the Solomon’s, with special Reference to Those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part II". (24.02.1975). ''Journal of Herpetology'' '''9''' (1): 1-79.</ref> had erroneously assigned Bara Bara to this island, rather than to the mainland of [[Papua New Guinea]]<ref name="Schleip2008"/> in [[Milne Bay Province]] as stated by Boulenger (1898)<ref name="Boul1898">[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger GA]] (1898). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7785916#704 "An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. L. Loria in British New Guinea"]. ''Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova'', Series 2, '''18''': 694-710.</ref> and Koopman (1982).<ref name="Koopm1982">[[Karl Koopman|Koopman KF]] (1982). "Results of the ArchiboldArchbold Expedition No. 109. Bats from Eastern Papua and the East Papua Islands". ''American Museum Novitates'' (2747): 1-34.</ref>

==Etymology==

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==Further reading==

*[[Harold Cogger|Cogger HG]] (2014). ''Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia, Seventh Edition''. Clayton, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. {{ISBN|978-0643100350}}. (''Leiopython albertisii'', p. &nbsp;821).

*[[species:Robert Graham Reynolds|Reynolds, R. Graham]]; [[species:Matthew L. Niemiller|Niemiller, Matthew L.]]; [[species:Liam J. Revell|Revell, Liam J.]] (2014). "Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' '''71''': 201-213201–213.

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