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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |publisher=[[IUCN]] |author=[[:fr:Larry Lee Grismer|Grismer, L]], [[(Mr.) Tanya Chan-ard|author2=Chan-Ard, T. ]]|year=2012 |volume=2012 |title=''Python brongersmai'' |page=e.T192169A2050353 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T192169A2050353.en |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/192169/2050353 |access-date=13 March 2018}}</ref>

| genus = Python

| species = brongersmai

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==Etymology==

The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''brongersmai'', is in honor of [[Dutch people|Dutch]] [[Herpetology|herpetologist]] [[Leo Brongersma]].<ref>[[Richard Allen "Bo" Crombet-Beolens|Beolens B]], Bo;[[Michael Watkins (zoologist)|Watkins M]], [[Michael; Grayson,|Grayson MichaelM]] (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=[[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>

==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 ''Occ.Occasional Pap.Papers of the Boston Soc.Society of Nat.Natural Hist.History'' '''8''': 297-300.] (''Python curtus brongersmai'', new species, 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==