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The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''oenpelliensis'', is derived from the [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]], which is given as "6.5 km S.W. of [[Gunbalanya, Northern Territory|Oenpelli, Northern Territory]], Australia (12°21'S, 133°01'E)".<ref name="McD99"/><ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Morelia oenpelliensis'', p. 193).</ref> In 2020, the name ''Narwaran'' was erected for the genus,<ref name=Esquerre>{{cite journal |last1=Esquerré |first1=Damien |last2=Donnellan |first2=Stephen |last3=Brennan |first3=Ian G. |last4=Lemmon |first4=Alan R. |last5=Moriarty Lemmon |first5=Emily |last6=Zaher |first6=Hussam |last7=Grazziotin |first7=Felipe G. |last8=Keogh |first8=J Scott |title=Phylogenomics, Biogeography, and Morphometrics Reveal Rapid Phenotypic Evolution in Pythons After Crossing Wallace's Line |journal=Systematic Biology |date=2020 |volume=69 |issue=6 |pages=1039–1051 |doi=10.1093/sysbio/syaa024}}</ref> overlooking the available name ''Nyctophilopython'' for the species which was immediately [[Synonym (taxonomy)|synonymised]] with the resurrected ''Nyctophilopython''.<ref name=Kaiser2020>{{cite journal |last1=Kaiser |first1=Hinrich |last2=Thomson |first2=Scott A. |last3=Shea |first3=Glenn M. |title=''Nawaran'' Esquerré, Donnellan, Brennan, Lemmon, Lemmon, Zaher, Grazziotin & Keogh, 2020 is an invalid junior synonym of ''Nyctophilopython'' Wells & Wellington, 1985 (Squamata, Pythonidae): simple priority without ''Zoobank'' pre-registration |journal=Bionomina |date=2020 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=47–54 |doi=10.11646/bionomina.20.1.4}}</ref>

As of June 2022, [[ITIS]] identifiesand the [[IUCN Red List]] identify the ''Simalia'' classification as valid,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1094048}}</ref><ref>https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/42494211/42494251</ref> while [[The Reptile Database]] uses ''Nyctophilopython''.<ref name=RDB/>

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