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*''Python brongersmai'' <br>{{small|— [[species:J. Scott Keogh|Keogh]], [[David G. Barker|Barker]] & [[Richard Shine|Shine]], 2001}}

*''Aspidoboa brongersmai'' <br>{{small|— [[Raymond Hoser|Hoser]], 2004}}

*''Python brongersmai'' <br>{{small|— [[species:Wulf D. Schleip|Schleip]] & [[Mark O'Shea (herpetologist)|O’SheaO'Shea]], 2010}}

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'''''Python brongersmai''''' is a [[species]] of non[[venomous snake]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Pythonidae]]. The species is native to [[Southeast Asia]].<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /> Previously considered a subspecies of ''[[Python curtus]]'', it was recognized as a distinct species around 2000.

==Common names==

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==Etymology==

The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''brongersmai'', is in honor of [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[Herpetology|herpetologist]] [[Leo Brongersma]].<ref>[[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}}. (''Python brongersmai'', p. 39).</ref>

==Geographic range==

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Once widely considered to be generally unpredictable and aggressive, ''P. brongersmai'' is gradually becoming more common among herpetoculturists. Formerly, many of the specimens in captivity were wild-caught adults from [[Malaysia]]. These are known to be more aggressive than those from [[Indonesia]] ([[Sumatra]]), from which most of the wild-caught, wild-bred, and captive-bred stock are now descended. Captive-raised juveniles generally become mild-tempered, somewhat-predictable adults. This, combined with several new brightly colored captive bloodlines, is helping to boost the popularity of these much-maligned snakes among reptile hobbyists.{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}}

''Python brongersmai'' is part of a commercial harvest for leather.<ref name="keogh">{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2001.tb01350.x|author=[[species:J. Scott Keogh|Keogh JS]], [[David G. Barker|Barker D]], [[Richard Shine|Shine R]]|year=2001|title=Heavily exploited but poorly known: systematics and biogeography of commercially harvested pythons (''Python curtus'' group) in Southeast Asia (abstract)|pages=113|journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=73|issue=1|doi-access=free}}</ref> There is evidence to suggest that there are clear indications of misdeclared, underreported and illegal trade involving tens of thousands of blood pythons, and there are questions whether this trade is sustainable .<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nijman |first=Vincent |date=2022-11-05 |title=Harvest quotas, free markets and the sustainable trade in pythons |url=https://natureconservationzenodo.pensoft.netorg/articlerecords/809886544927/files/NC_article_80988.pdf |journal=Nature Conservation |language=en |volume=48 |pages=99–121 |doi=10.3897/natureconservation.48.80988 |issn=1314-3301|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Taxonomy==

This species was first described by [[Olive Griffith Stull]] in 1938 as ''Python curtus brongersmai'', a [[subspecies]] of ''[[Python curtus]]''.<ref>[[Olive Griffith Stull|Stull OG]] (1938). "Three New Subspecies of the Family Boidae". [https://archive.org/stream/occasionalpapers08bost#page/296/mode/2up ''Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History'' '''8''': 297-300.] (''Python curtus brongersmai'', new subspecies, pp. 297-298).</ref> This [[taxon]] has since been elevated and recognised as a full species, ''Python brongersmai'', by [[:fr:Olivier Sylvain Gérard Pauwels|Pauwels]] ''et al''. (2000).<ref name=RDB>{{NRDB species|genus=Python|species=brongersmai|date=15 September|year=2007}}</ref><ref name="keogh"/>

==References==