Sumatran short-tailed python: Difference between revisions

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The '''Sumatran short-tailed python'''<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021"/> ('''''Python curtus'''''), also called the '''Sumatra python'''<ref>{{NRDB species|genus=Python|species=curtus|date=11 September|year=2007}}</ref> is a [[species]] of the family [[Pythonidae]], a nonvenomous snake native to [[Sumatra]].<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" />

==Taxonomy==

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[[File:PythonCurtusRooij.jpg|thumb|The arrangement of labial scales identify this illustration as ''[[Python brongersmai]]'']]

The Sumatran short-tailed python has narrow subocular [[Scale (anatomy)|scales]] between the bottom of the eye and the top of the labial scales. The parietal scales do not join each other. ''P. curtus'' and ''[[Python breitensteini|P. breitensteini]]'' can be distinguished by the frontal and parietal scales on the tops of their heads. In both ''[[Python brongersmai|P. brongersmai]]'' and ''P. breitensteini'', the parietal scales join.

Adults grow to {{convert|1.1|-|1.5|m|ft|abbr=on}} in length and are heavily built. The tail is extremely short relative to the overall length. The color pattern consists of a beige, tan, or grayish-brown ground color overlaid with blotches that are reddish in color.<ref name="Meh87">Mehrtens, J. M. 1987. Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. {{ISBN|0-8069-6460-X}}.</ref><!-- the split of brongersmai and breitensteini was after this 1987 source -->

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==Common names==

{{expert-subject|date=December 2012}}--><!-- after the split of brongersmai and breitensteini, some of the names apply to these.

'''Short python''', '''Blood python''' '''Short-tailed python''', '''Black blood python''', '''Sumatran short-tailed python''', '''Sumatran blood python'''. -->

==Distribution and habitat==