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'''Pygmy pythons''' are the smallest of all [[python]]s and only reach twenty inches at [[maturity]]. They are also known as anthill pythons.

| color = pink

| name = ''Antaresia perthensis''

| regnum = [[Animal]]ia

| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]

| subphylum = [[Vertebrate|Vertebrata]]

| classis = [[Reptile|Reptilia]]

| ordo = [[Squamata]]

| subordo = [[Serpentes]]

| familia = [[Pythonidae]]

| genus = ''[[Antaresia]]''

| species = '''''A. perthensis'''''

| binomial = ''Antaresia perthensis''

| binomial_authority = (Stull, [[1932]])

| synonyms = * ''Liasis childreni perthensis'' - Stull, 1932

* ''Liasis perthensis'' - Cogger, Cameron & Cogger, 1983

* ''Bothrochilus perthensis'' - Cogger, Cameron & Cogger, 1983

* ''Morelia perthensis'' - Underwood & Stimson, 1990

* ''Liasis perthensis'' - Cogger, 1992

* ''A''[''ntaresia'']. perthensis'' - Kluge, 1993<ref name="McD99">McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).</ref>

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'''Common names:''' pygmy python, anthill python.

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'''''Antaresia perthensis''''' is a [[Pythonidae|python]] [[species]] found in western [[Australia]]. It is the smallest of all pythons, reaching only twenty inches at [[maturity]]. No subspecies are currently recognized.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS|ID=634766|taxon=''Antaresia perthensis''|year=2007|date=17 August}}</ref>

==Cited references==

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