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<taxonomicName id="09DB2027F6B033414252FFAF8AE81D1E" ID-CoL="7HHBG" authority="Hoser, 2000" authorityName="Hoser" authorityYear="2000" class="Squamata" family="Pythonidae" genus="Morelia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Morelia spilota" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="spilota" subSpecies="harrisoni">Morelia spilota harrisoni Hoser, 2000</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="4566F0C00C0CADA707664F0324367B46" pageId="18" pageNumber="47">Holotype:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8A7AA70DCB63830840D556961468574E" pageId="18" pageNumber="47">AMNH R-82433.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F673E4E662EAC3279B60B5D7F94DDBE0" pageId="18" pageNumber="47">Type locality:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="2E6D6D41D17B39D71446D88A001CF229" pageId="18" pageNumber="47">Port Moresby, Central Province, Papua New Guinea.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="74C07DAF97E311D899D1B7B3EA667034" pageId="18" pageNumber="47">Remarks:</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation id="F2A88B9ACC3A60EA3CDD1912660D7A68" author="Hoser, RT" journalOrPublisher="Ophidia Review" pageId="24" pageNumber="53" pagination="7 - 27" title="A revision of the Australasian pythons." url="http://www.smuggled.com/pytrsm1.pdf" volume="1" year="2000">Hoser (2000: 24)</bibRefCitation>
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described this taxon at specific rank but considered it "similar in most respects to the others in the genus
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" separating it from
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,
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<taxonomicName id="A891CA1C60EF07B02AD3A9E2F34AB81D" class="Squamata" family="Pythonidae" genus="Morelia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Morelia spilota subsp. variegata" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="spilota" subSpecies="variegata">Morelia spilota variegata</taxonomicName>
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, and
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<taxonomicName id="89517BF9BE67EB95888D7036D9E5C3DE" class="Squamata" family="Pythonidae" genus="Morelia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Morelia spilota subsp. mcdowelli" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" species="spilota" subSpecies="mcdowelli">Morelia spilota mcdowelli</taxonomicName>
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"by distribution" (APP1, APP2), and further stating that specimens of this taxon "tend to have a lower average ventral and subcaudal scale count than
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,
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and
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<taxonomicName id="5DB402BC8573941B2D3386914F34CC01" class="Squamata" family="Pythonidae" genus="Morelia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Morelia macdowelli" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="macdowelli">Morelia macdowelli</taxonomicName>
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, however the sample seen is too small to conclude if this trend is general" (
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<bibRefCitation id="4830A6295E21AEBBEB6D53981C29E781" author="Hoser, RT" journalOrPublisher="Ophidia Review" pageId="24" pageNumber="53" pagination="7 - 27" title="A revision of the Australasian pythons." url="http://www.smuggled.com/pytrsm1.pdf" volume="1" year="2000">Hoser 2000: 25</bibRefCitation>
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).
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concept of this taxon comprises several populations throughout New Guinea. The author referred to
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<bibRefCitation id="AB99975F5C8AF3254AA7A4686D0955AC" author="Barker, DG" journalOrPublisher="Reptiles (US), May" pageId="24" pageNumber="53" pagination="48 - 71" title="A tapestry of Carpet Pythons." volume="1999" year="1999">Barker and Barker (1999)</bibRefCitation>
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for further diagnostic characters. Barker and Barker identified several different and distinct populations from New Guinea, which
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<bibRefCitation id="25FE78D5F0C262E6BECA44407299A010" author="Hoser, RT" journalOrPublisher="Ophidia Review" pageId="24" pageNumber="53" pagination="7 - 27" title="A revision of the Australasian pythons." url="http://www.smuggled.com/pytrsm1.pdf" volume="1" year="2000">Hoser (2000)</bibRefCitation>
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placed within this catch-all taxon. For the "Port Moresby" population
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stated that they "exhibit some characteristics of both variegata and mcdowelli (
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).Most Port Moresby carpets have longitudinally expanded lateral pale blotches and bold facial stripes from the eye to the nasal scale, as do mcdowelli in northern Queensland. The patterns on the tops of the heads are similar to variegata". For the "Irian Jaya" (now West Papuan or Papuan) population they stated that "[a]t 2 and 3 years of age, some are even as black and gold as
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", but did not provide further information on the
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(PNG) or the "Northern New Guinea" populations.
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<bibRefCitation id="5D9F7AD33FB243E3AEF2260AFFE95BE5" author="Hoser, RT" journalOrPublisher="Ophidia Review" pageId="24" pageNumber="53" pagination="7 - 27" title="A revision of the Australasian pythons." url="http://www.smuggled.com/pytrsm1.pdf" volume="1" year="2000">Hoser (2000: 25)</bibRefCitation>
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finally stated that "
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<taxonomicName id="748C50EB53F8F67B0390870ED7077DF7" class="Squamata" family="Pythonidae" genus="Morelia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Morelia harrisoni" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="harrisoni">Morelia harrisoni</taxonomicName>
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can best be definitively separated from the other species of
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by DNA analysis" (APP2). To the
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best knowledge, no such analysis has been carried out. Since the diagnostic characters provided by
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<bibRefCitation id="5DDE98BAAA2DE280C6182F3114C8921C" author="Hoser, RT" journalOrPublisher="Ophidia Review" pageId="24" pageNumber="53" pagination="7 - 27" title="A revision of the Australasian pythons." url="http://www.smuggled.com/pytrsm1.pdf" volume="1" year="2000">Hoser (2000)</bibRefCitation>
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and by
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<bibRefCitation id="30403D0C8618F4A0DC783A5DC0A320D2" author="Barker, DG" journalOrPublisher="Reptiles (US), May" pageId="24" pageNumber="53" pagination="48 - 71" title="A tapestry of Carpet Pythons." volume="1999" year="1999">Barker and Barker (1999)</bibRefCitation>
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overlap with those for other taxa of the
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<taxonomicName id="CED518308A37DFF33743D99769BB7A91" class="Squamata" family="Pythonidae" genus="Morelia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Morelia spilota" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="spilota">Morelia spilota</taxonomicName>
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complex, this taxon is
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<pageBreakToken id="FCEDA57530896D651108AFF807D41ADB" pageId="19" pageNumber="48" start="start">likely</pageBreakToken>
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to be confused with them. We consider this taxon a subspecies inquirenda (APP7).
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<bibRefCitation id="0033800381F8C71D34D0A2059EB14DBD" author="Henderson, RW" editor="Henderson, RW" journalOrPublisher="Eagle Mountain Publishing, Utah, USA" pageId="24" pageNumber="53" pagination="3 - 21" title="The biology of boas and pythons: a retrospective look to the future." volumeTitle="Biology of the Boas and Pythons." year="2007">Henderson and Powell (2007)</bibRefCitation>
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did not recognize this taxon.
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<bibRefCitation id="8008CEE7C87B0952CA58EB2590BD56AD" author="Mense, M" journalOrPublisher="Natur und Tier Verlag, Muenster, Germany" pageId="25" pageNumber="54" title="Rautenpythons." year="2006">Mense (2006)</bibRefCitation>
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discussed this taxon as a subspecies of
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<taxonomicName id="3FDE072F5770F674E7C4B7A61A5B5142" class="Squamata" family="Pythonidae" genus="Morelia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Morelia spilota" pageId="19" pageNumber="48" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="spilota">Morelia spilota</taxonomicName>
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, and
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<bibRefCitation id="597EB11D5F2D4BAD2DBE905D8AF1E8BB" author="O'Shea, M" journalOrPublisher="New Holland, London" pageId="25" pageNumber="54" title="Boas and Pythons of the World." year="2007">
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<normalizedToken id="CBD8F5401E258D5FBE9B03ED9856E847" originalValue="O’Shea">O'Shea</normalizedToken>
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(2007: 134)
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wrote: "Papuan Carpet Python
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<taxonomicName id="DC481D6D00BF72B3F31224CE109E435A" class="Squamata" family="Pythonidae" genus="Morelia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Morelia spilota" pageId="19" pageNumber="48" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="spilota">Morelia spilota</taxonomicName>
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ssp. The status of all New Guinea Carpet Pythons is controversial (
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). The New Guinea populations are fragmented and isolated, and their taxonomic status and relationships have yet to be determined with certainty". Until further research has established otherwise, these authors treat this taxon as a subspecies of
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, as proposed by
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<bibRefCitation id="0CD9E2AD69371BF93F48FBAC1ED4592B" author="Mense, M" journalOrPublisher="Natur und Tier Verlag, Muenster, Germany" pageId="25" pageNumber="54" title="Rautenpythons." year="2006">Mense (2006)</bibRefCitation>
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and
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<bibRefCitation id="67C98C013E81AF6287076A70F0CAE7D8" author="Flagle, AR" journalOrPublisher="Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main" pageId="24" pageNumber="53" title="Black Python Morelia boeleni" volumeTitle="Frankfurt Contributions to Natural History No. 26." year="2009">Flagle and Stoops (2009)</bibRefCitation>
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.
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