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Morelia spilota variegata 2🐍

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SpeciesPythonidae
Reptiles

🐍Carpet python

Morelia spilota (Lacépède, 1804)

الأصلة السجادية (الإنجليزية: carpet python، والاسم العلمي: Morelia spilota) ثعبان كبير من فصيلة الأصليات يوجد في أستراليا وغينيا الجديدة (إندونيسيا وبابوا غينيا الجديدة) وأرخبيل بسمارك وشمال جزر سليمان. ويُعترف له بنويعات كثيرة؛ فنظام المعلومات التصنيفية المتكامل يُدرج ستة، وقاعدة بيانات الزواحف ستة، والاتحاد الدولي لحفظ الطبيعة ثمانية.

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≈ 1/4th of your weight
Also called
diamond python
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
16 kg
Body length
1.68 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Everything we know about the Carpet python

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
16 kgrecord 22 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
1.68 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
20 yearsrecord 25 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
63 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Carnivorous
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
AMB
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
1.66 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.66 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
16 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Carpet python yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyPythonidae
  5. ›genusMorelia
  6. ›speciesMorelia spilota
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. familyPythonidae
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. familyPythonidae
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Teppepyton (nb), Rautenpython (de), krajta kobercová (cs), Morelia spilota (fr), Morelia spilota (it), カーペットニシキヘビ (ja) … and 18 more languages
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