Anchieta's Dwarf Python
Python anchietae
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Reptiles
Python anchietae is a python species endemic to southern Africa. According to Donald George Broadley (1990), this species is most closely related to the ball python of western Africa, and no subspecies are currently recognized. It is named after the Portuguese naturalist and explorer José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta. Like all other pythons, it is not venomous.
Classification
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Pythonidae
- Genus
- Python