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==Taxonomy==
[[File:Python curtus.jpg|thumb|leftA Sumatran short-tailed python]]
''Python curtus'' was the [[scientific name]] proposed by [[Hermann Schlegel]] in 1872 for a python with a short tail from Sumatra.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schlegel |first1=H. |year=1872 |title=De Diergaarde van het Koninklijk Zoölogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra te Amsterdam: De Kruipende Dieren |editor1-last=Witkamp |editor1-first=P. H. |___location=Amsterdam |publisher=Van Es |pages=53–54 |chapter=De Pythons |chapterurl=https://archive.org/details/dedierentuinvanh00schl/page/54}}</ref>
The subspecies ''[[Python curtus brongersmai|P. c. brongersmai]]'' was elevated to a full species by Pauwels ''et al.'' (2000).,<ref name="NRDB-bro">{{NRDB species|genus=Python|species=brongersmai|date=15 September|year=2007}}</ref> while ''[[Python curtus breitensteini|P. c. breitensteini]]'' was given species status by Keogh, Barker and Shine (2001).<ref name="NRDB-bre">{{NRDB species|genus=Python|species=breitensteini|date=15 September|year=2007}}</ref> The divergence of this monophyletic group is presumed to be isolation of populations resulting from changes in sea levels. Phylogenetic analysis of the Malay population, ''P. c. brongersmai'', suggests a close affinity with the nominal subspecies, but ''P. c. breitensteini'' was determined to be as genetically distant from the original type as the species ''[[Python reticulatus]]''.<ref name=keogh/>
An arrangement as subspecies is summarised as:<ref name="ITIS"/>
:'''''P. curtus''''' Schlegel, 1872
::''P. c. curtus'', western and southern Sumatra, one of two taxa referred to as short-tailed pythons.
::''[[Python curtus breitensteini]]'', [[Hermann Schlegel|Schlegel]], 1872/[[Franz Steindachner|Steindachner]], 1880 Borneo short-tailed python or brown blood python, [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]]: [[Borneo]]/[[Kalimantan]].
::''[[Python curtus brongersmai]]'' [[Olive Griffith Stull|Stull]], 1935, referred to by the common name red blood python, this taxon contains reddish colour morphs, the type locality was [[Singapore]], [[Malay Peninsula]].
The synonyms for this arrangement are:<ref name="McD99">McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. {{ISBN|1-893777-00-6}} (series). {{ISBN|1-893777-01-4}} (volume).</ref>
* ''Python curtus'' - Schlegel, 1872
* ''Aspidoboa curtus'' - Sauvage, 1884
* ''Python curtus'' - Boulenger, 1890
* ''Python curtus'' - Boulenger, 1893
* ''Python curtus curtus'' - Stull, 1935
* ''Python curtus curtus'' - Stimson, 1969
* ''Python curtus'' - Stuebing, 1991
==See also==
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