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{{Short description|Species of snake}}

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

| genus status = LeiopythonLC

| image_caption = ''Leiopython albertisii''

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| genus = Leiopython

| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Tallowin, O. |author-link=species:Oliver J.S. Tallowin |author2=Allison, A. |author2-link=species:Allen Allison |author3=O'Shea, M. |author3-link=species:Mark O'Shea |author4=Parker, F. |author4-link=species:Fred Parker |date=2018 |title=''Leiopython albertisii '' |volume=2018 |page=e.T199628A2607789 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T199628A2607789.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref>

| species = albertisii

| genus = Leiopython

| authority = ([[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]] & [[Giacomo Doria|Doria]], 1878)

| species = albertisii

| synonyms = *''Liasis Albertisii'' <br>{{small|W. Peters & Doria, 1878}}

| authority = ([[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]] & [[Giacomo Doria|Doria]], 1878)

| synonyms = *''Liasis Albertisii'' <br>{{small|W. Peters & Doria, 1878}}

*''Leiopython gracilis'' <br>{{small|[[Ambrosius Hubrecht|Hubrecht]], 1879}}

*''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}}

*''L''[''eiopython'']. ''albertisii'' <br>{{small|— [[Arnold G. Kluge|Kluge]], 1993}}

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

*''Bothrochilus albertisii'' <br>{{small|— Reynolds et al., 2014}}<ref name="faculty.umb.edu">[http://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell/pdfs/Reynolds_etal_2014.MPE.pdf Reynolds, R. Graham; Niemiller, Matthew L.; 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'' '''7''': 201-213.</ref>

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'''''Leiopython albertisii''''', commonly known as '''D'Albertis' Python''', '''D'Albert's water python''', the '''white-lipped python''', or the '''northern white-lipped python''', is a [[species]] of [[Python (genus)|python]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Pythonidae]]. No [[subspecies]] are currently recognized.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=634409 |taxon=''Leiopython'' |accessdate=9 September 2007}}</ref> ''Leiopython'' was first described as an intermediate [[genus]] between the [[Genus|genera]] ''[[Liasis]]'' and ''[[Nardoa (snake)|Nardoa]]''.<ref name="Hub79">[[Ambrosius Hubrecht|Hubrecht AAW]] (1879). [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9630893#26 "Notes III. On a new genus and species of Pythonidae from Salawatti"]. ''Notes from the Leyden Museum'' '''1''': 14-15. (''Leiopython'', new genus, p. 14).</ref>

'''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==

''L. albertisii'' is found in most of [[New Guinea]] below {{convert|1200|m|ft|abbr=on}}, including the islands of [[Salawati]] and [[Biak]], [[Normanby Island, Papua New Guinea|Normanby]], [[Mussau Island|Mussau]] and [[Emirau Island|Emirau]],<ref name="Schleip2008">{{cite journal |last1last=Schleip |first1first=Wulf D. |author-link=species:Wulf D. Schleip |title=Revision of the genus ''Leiopython'' Hubrecht 1879 (Serpentes: Pythonidae) with the redescription of taxa recently described by Hoser (2000) and the description of new species |journal=Journal of Herpetology |date=2008 |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=645–667 |doi=10.1670/06-182R5.1}}</ref> as well as a few islands in the [[Torres Strait]].

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 TTA]] (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). [httphttps://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==

The [[specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''albertisii'', is in honor of Italian explorer [[Luigi D'Albertis]].<ref name="PetDor1878">[[Wilhelm Peters|Peters W]], [[Giacomo Doria|Doria G]] (1878). "''Catalogo dei rettili e dei batraci raccolti da [[Odoardo Beccari|O. Beccari]], L. M. D'Albertis e A. A. Bruijn nella sotto-regione austro-malese'' ". ''Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova'', Series 1, '''13''': 323-450. ("''Liasis Albertisii'' ", new species, pp. 401-403 + Plate III, Figure 2). (in Italian and Latin).</ref><ref name="Blns2011">[[species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins|Watkins, Michael]]; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Leiopython albertisii'', p. 64; ''L. bennettorum'', p. 22).</ref>

==Description==

Female adults of ''L. albertisii'' grow to an average of about 213&nbsp;cm (6–7&nbsp;ft) in total length (including tail). TheyBoth sexes are patternless, except for some light markings on the [[postoculars]]. The [[Dorsum (anatomy)|dorsum]] of the head is shiny black, and the upper and lower [[labial scales]] are white with black markings on the anterior edge of the scales. Body color is either brownish-violet fading to yellowish ventrally or blackish-blue fading to gray.

==Behavior==

Although mostly terrestrial, ''L. albertisii'' can and is known to occasionally climb.<ref name="Leiopython Albertisii">{{cite web|title=''Bothrochilus albertisii ''|url=http://www.coldbloodcreations.com/collection_pages/wlp.html|accessdate=14 December 2016}} Cold Blood Creations.</ref> White-lipped pythons are reportedly aggressive, though this is reduced in those born and raised in captivity.<ref>{{cite web|title=White Lipped Python|url=http://www.snakeestate.com/pythons/white-lipped-python.html|website=Python Snake Database|publisher=Snake Estate|accessdate=14 December 2016}}</ref> ''L. albertisii'' also has been observed to regularly regurgitate fur balls from its prey.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Schleip|first1=Wulf|title=''Leiopython albertisii'' (Northern White-Lipped Python). Behavior |journal=Herpetological Review |date=June 2009 |volume=40 |issue=2 |page=231 |accessdate=14 December 2016 |url=http://www.leiopython.de/publications/2009,%20Schleip,%20Leiopython_Behavior.pdf}}</ref>

==FeedingDiet==

The diet of ''L. albertisii'' includes a range of small-sized to medium-sized birds and mammals.<ref name="Meh87">[[species:John M. Mehrtens|Mehrtens JM]] (1987). ''Living Snakes of the World in Color''. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. {{ISBN|0-8069-6460-X}}.</ref> Neonates and juveniles often feed on lizards. Heat sensitive pits in the upper and lower jaws are used to help locate prey during nocturnal hunting.<ref name="Leiopython Albertisii"/>

==Reproduction==

''L. albertisii'' is [[Oviparity|oviparous]]. A sexually mature female may lay a [[Clutch (eggs)|clutch]] of about a dozen eggs. The eggs stick together in a compact pile, and the female coils around them. The hatchlings emerge after about two months of incubation and are about {{convert|38|cm|in|abbr=on}} in length.<ref name="Meh87"/>

==References==

{{Reflist|2}}

{{Wikispecies|Leiopython albertisii}}

{{Commons|Leiopython albertisii}}

==Further reading==

{{Reflist|2}}

*[[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).

*''Bothrochilus[[species:Robert albertisii''Graham <br>{{smallReynolds|— Reynolds, et alR., 2014}}<refGraham]]; name="faculty.umb.edu">[http[species://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell/pdfs/Reynolds_etal_2014.MPE.pdf Reynolds,Matthew RL. Graham; 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'' '''771''': 201-213201–213.</ref>

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[[Category:Pythonidae]]

[[Category:ReptilesSnakes of New Guinea]]

[[Category:AnimalsReptiles described in 1878]]

[[Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters]]

[[Category:Endemic fauna of New Guinea]]