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==Taxonomy==
Obsolete classification schemes—such as that of [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]] (1890)—place pythons in Pythoninae, a [[subfamily]] of the boa family, [[Boidae]].<ref name="McD99"/> However, despite a superficial [[K-means clustering]] resemblance to boas, pythons are more closely related to the sunbeam snakes (''[[Xenopeltis]]'') and the Mexican burrowing python (''[[Loxocemus]]'').<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Pyron RA, Burbrink FT, Wiens JJ | title = A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 13 | pages = 93 | date = April 2013 | issue = 1 | pmid = 23627680 | pmc = 3682911 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2013BMCEE..13...93P }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Graham Reynolds R, Niemiller ML, Revell LJ | title = Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling | journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume = 71 | pages = 201–13 | date = February 2014 | pmid = 24315866 | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011 | bibcode = 2014MolPE..71..201G | url = http://www.rgrahamreynolds.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Reynolds_etal_2014_MPE.pdf | access-date = 2018-05-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151202212953/http://www.rgrahamreynolds.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Reynolds_etal_2014_MPE.pdf | archive-date = 2015-12-02 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
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