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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| 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>
| genus = Leiopython
| species = albertisii
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==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 |
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: "''... un esemplare a Kapaor fra i Papua Onin...''" and "''... 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
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). [https://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 Archibold 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==
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==Diet==
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==
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