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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author=Woinarski, J. |author2=Gillespie, G. |author3=Greenlees, M. |author4=McDonald, P. |author5=Fenner, A. |year=2017 |title=''Simalia oenpelliensis'' |volume=2017 |page=e.T42494211A42494251 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T42494211A42494251.en |access-date=15 February 2022}}</ref>

| genus = Nyctophilopython

| parent_authority = Wells and Wellington, 1985

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*''Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis'' <br>{{small|— Wells & Wellington, 1985}}

*''M''[''orelia'']. ''oenpelliensis'' <br>{{small|— [[Arnold G. Kluge|Kluge]], 1993}}<ref name="McD99">{{cite book|last1=McDiarmid|author-link1=:fr:Roy Wallace McDiarmid|first1=R. W.|last2=Campbell|first2=J. A.|author-link2=Jonathan A. Campbell|last3=Touré|first3=T.|year=1999|title=Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference|volume=1|publisher=Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League|isbn=1-893777-01-4}}</ref>

*''Simalia oenpelliensis'' <br>{{small|— [[R. Graham Reynolds|Reynolds]] et al., 2014}}<ref>"''Simalia oenpelliensis'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.<name=RDB/ref>

*''Nawaran oenpelliensis'' {{small|— Esquerré et al. 2020}}

}}

The '''Oenpelli python''' or '''Oenpelli rock python''' (''Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis'') is a [[species]] of large [[snake]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Pythonidae]]. The species is [[Endemism|endemic]] to the [[sandstone]] [[massif]] area of the western [[Arnhem Land]] region in the [[Northern Territory]] of [[Australia]].<ref name=IUCN/><ref name="NT threatened"/> There are no [[subspecies]] that are recognised as being valid.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS|id=634779|taxon=''Morelia oenpelliensis ''|access-date=2007-09-19}}<RDB/ref> It has been called the rarest python in the world.<ref>{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yabmq1pTpn8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/yabmq1pTpn8 |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title=Rarest Python in the World|date=18 December 2013|publisher=SnakeBytesTV|access-date=2016-02-04}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite video|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otbw8pSC114 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/otbw8pSC114 |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title=Breeding plan aims to save snakes|date=29 March 2012|publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)]]|access-date=2016-02-04}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name=SydneySmith/> Two notable characteristics of the species are the unusually large size of its eggs and its ability to change colour.<ref name=JCM/>

==Taxonomy and etymology==

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==References==

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*<ref name=RDB>{{NRDB species |genus=Nyctophilopython |species=oenpelliensis |access-date=1015 June|year=2021February 2022}}</ref>

}}

==External links==

*{{NRDB species|genus=Nyctophilopython|species=oenpelliensis|date=10 June|year=2021}}

*"Darwin snake expert breeds 'rainbow serpent' python back from the brink of extinction." ABC News 14 April 2015. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-15/rare-nt-python-bred-first-time-captivity/6394192]

{{Pythonidae}}

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[[Category:Snakes of Australia]]

[[Category:Pythonidae]]

[[Category:Snakes of Australia]]

[[Category:Reptiles of the Northern Territory]]

[[Category:Endemic fauna of Australia]]

[[Category:Reptiles described in 1977]]