'''''Antaresia perthensis''''' is a [[Pythonidae|python]] [[species]] of snake found in western [[western Australia]]. The smallest member of the python[[Pythonidae]] family, and known as the '''Pygmy python''', the species is also termed the '''Ant-hill python''' for its occurrence in [[Termite#Mounds|termite mounds]]. The specific epithet is derived from the state capital, [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]], but this is not within the distribution range.<ref name ="Bush">{{cite book |author= Browne-Cooper, R., Bush, B., Maryan, B., Robinson, D. |title= Reptiles and Frogs in the Bush: Southwestern Australia|year= 2007|month= |publisher= [[University of Western Australia]] Press|isbn= 9778 1 920694 74 6 |pages= |chapter= Houtman Abrolhos |chapterurl= |quote= }}</ref> No subspecies are currently recognized.<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS|ID=634766|taxon=''Antaresia perthensis''|year=2007|date=17 August}}</ref>
==Description==
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==Geographic range==
Found in [[Australia]] in the northwest of [[Western Australia]] and on some coastal islands. The [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] given is "Perth, West Australia" (Western Australia); an erroneous assumption of the place where the specimen was collected. The unfamiliarity of europeans with the place of a mistakespecimen's collection has given rise to other 'naming peculiarities'.<ref name ="Bush"/> According to L.A. Smith (1985), the type locality is unknown.<ref name="McD99"/>
