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| 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 affair|Wells & Wellington]], 1985
| species = oenpelliensis
| authority = ([[species:Graeme Francis Gow|Gow]], 1977)<ref name=Gow/>
| synonyms = *''Python oenpelliensis'' <br />{{small|Gow, 1977}}
*''Morelia oenpelliensis'' <br />{{small|— [[Harold Cogger|H.G. Cogger]], [[species:Elizabeth E. Cameron|Cameron]] & <br />[[species:Heather M. Cogger|H.M. Cogger]], 1983}}
*''Australiasis oenpelliensis'' <br />{{small|— [[Richard Walter Wells|Wells]] & [[Cliff Ross Wellington|Wellington]], 1984}}
*''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|— [[
*''Nawaran oenpelliensis'' <br />{{small|— Esquerré et al. 2020}}
*''Nyctophilopython oenpelliensis'' <br />{{small|— [[species:Hinrich Kaiser|Kaiser]], [[species:Scott Thomson|Thomson]] & [[species:Glenn Michael Shea|Shea]], 2020}}<ref name=RDB/>
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The '''Oenpelli python''' or '''Oenpelli rock python''' ('''''Simalia oenpelliensis''''' or '''''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=RDB/> 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/> It is the longest snake native to the Northern Territory.<ref name=CrocCove/>
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