Editing Green tree python (section)

{{Short description|Species of snake}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = M. viridis.jpg
| image_caption = Green tree python at [[Sydney Zoo]]
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn|author=Tallowin O|author-link=Oliver Tallowin|author2= Parker F |author2-link=Frederick Stanley "Fred" Parker||author3=O'Shea M|author3-link=Mark O'Shea (herpetologist) |author4=Hoskin C|author4-link=Conrad J. Hoskin|author5=Couper P|author5-link=Patrick J. Couper|author6=Amey A|author6-link=Andrew P. Amey|year=2018|title= ''Morelia viridis''|page= e.T177524A21649845 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T177524A21649845.en}}</ref>
| genus = Morelia (snake)
| species = viridis
| authority = ([[Hermann Schlegel|Schlegel]], 1872)
| synonyms = {{Collapsible list
|''Python viridis'' <br>{{small|Schlegel, 1872}}
|''Chondropython azureus'' <br>{{small|[[Adolf Bernard Meyer|Meyer]], 1874}}
|''Chondropython pulcher'' <br>{{small|[[Henri Émile Sauvage|Sauvage]], 1878}}
|''Chondropython azureus'' <br>{{small|— [[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]] & [[Giacomo Doria|Doria]], 1878}}
|''Chondropython viridis'' <br>{{small|— [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1893}}
|''Chondropython viridis'' <br>{{small|— [[James Roy Kinghorn|Kinghorn]], 1928}}
|''Chondropython viridis'' <br>{{small|— [[Samuel Booker McDowell|McDowell]], 1975}}
|''Morelia viridis'' <br>{{small|— [[:fr:Garth Underwood|Underwood]] & [[Andrew Francis Stimson|Stimson]], 1990}}
|''Chondropython viridis'' <br>{{small|— [[Harold Cogger|Cogger]], 1992}}
|''M'' [''orelia'']. ''viridis'' <br>{{small|— [[Arnold G. Kluge|Kluge]], 1993}}
}}
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="McD99"/>
}}

The '''green tree python''' ('''''Morelia viridis'''''), is a [[species]] of [[snake]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Pythonidae]]. The species is native to [[New Guinea]], some islands in [[Indonesia]], and the [[Cape York Peninsula]] in [[Australia]]. First described by [[Hermann Schlegel]] in 1872, it was known for many years as ''Chondropython viridis''. As its [[common name]] suggests, it is a bright green snake that can reach a total length (including tail) of {{cvt|2|m|ft}} and a weight of {{cvt|1.6|kg|lb}}, with females slightly larger and heavier than males. Living generally in trees, the green tree python mainly hunts and eats small reptiles and mammals. It is a popular pet, and numbers in the wild have suffered with large-scale smuggling of wild-caught green tree pythons in Indonesia. Despite this, the green tree python is rated as [[least concern]] on the [[IUCN Red List]] of endangered species.