Editing Pythonidae (section)

==Taxonomy==
Obsolete classification schemes—such as that of [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]] (1890)—place pythons in Pythoninae, a [[subfamily]] of the boa family, [[Boidae]].<ref name="McD99"/> However, despite a superficial [[K-means clustering]] resemblance to boas, pythons are more closely related to the sunbeam snakes (''[[Xenopeltis]]'') and the Mexican burrowing python (''[[Loxocemus]]'').<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Pyron RA, Burbrink FT, Wiens JJ | title = A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 13 | pages = 93 | date = April 2013 | issue = 1 | pmid = 23627680 | pmc = 3682911 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2013BMCEE..13...93P }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Graham Reynolds R, Niemiller ML, Revell LJ | title = Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling | journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume = 71 | pages = 201–13 | date = February 2014 | pmid = 24315866 | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011 | bibcode = 2014MolPE..71..201G | url = http://www.rgrahamreynolds.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Reynolds_etal_2014_MPE.pdf | access-date = 2018-05-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151202212953/http://www.rgrahamreynolds.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Reynolds_etal_2014_MPE.pdf | archive-date = 2015-12-02 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

===Genera===
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|-
! Genus<ref name="ITIS"/>
! Taxon author<ref name="ITIS"/>
! Species<ref name="ITIS"/>
! Subsp.{{efn|Not including the [[Nominotypical subspecies|nominate subspecies]].}}<ref name="ITIS"/>
! Common name
! Geographic range<ref name="McD99"/>
|-
|''[[Antaresia]]''
|[[Wells and Wellington affair|Wells & Wellington]], 1984
| style="text-align:center;"|4
| style="text-align:center;"|2
|Children's pythons
|style="width:40%"|Australia in arid and tropical regions
|-
|''[[Apodora]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kluge AG |author-link=Arnold G. Kluge |title=''Aspidites'' and the phylogeny of pythonine snakes |journal=Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement|volume=19 |pages=77 |date=1993 |doi=10.3853/j.0812-7387.19.1993.52 |isbn=0-7310-1164-3 |url=https://media.australianmuseum.net.au/media/Uploads/Journals/16847/52_complete.pdf}}</ref>
|[[Arnold G. Kluge|Kluge]], 1993
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|0
|Papuan python
|Papua New Guinea
|-
|''[[Aspidites]]''
|[[Wilhelm Peters|W. Peters]], 1877
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|0
|pitless pythons
|Australia, except in the southern parts of the country
|-
|''Bothrochilus''
|[[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1843
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|0
|[[Bismarck ringed python]]
|the Bismarck Archipelago
|-
|''[[Leiopython]]''
|[[Ambrosius Hubrecht|Hubrecht]], 1879
| style="text-align:center;"|3
| style="text-align:center;"|0
|white-lipped pythons
|Papua New Guinea
|-
|''[[Liasis]]''
|[[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1842
| style="text-align:center;"|3
| style="text-align:center;"|5
|water pythons
|[[Indonesia]] in the [[Lesser Sunda Islands]], east through New Guinea and northern and western Australia
|-
|''[[Malayopython]]''
|[[species:Robert Graham Reynolds|Reynolds]], 2014
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|3
|reticulated and Timor pythons
|from India to Timor
|-
|''[[Morelia (snake)|Morelia]]''
|Gray, 1842
| style="text-align:center;"|6
| style="text-align:center;"|7
|tree pythons
|from Indonesia in the [[Maluku Islands]], east through New Guinea, including the Bismarck Archipelago, and Australia
|-
|''[[Nyctophilopython]]''
|[[species:Graeme Francis Gow|Gow]], 1977
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|0
|[[Oenpelli python]]
|style="width:40%"|the Northern Territory, Australia
|-
|''[[Python (genus)|Python]]''{{efn|[[Type genus]].<ref name="McD99"/>}}
|[[François Marie Daudin|Daudin]], 1803
| style="text-align:center;"|10
| style="text-align:center;"|1
|true pythons
|Africa in the tropics south of the [[Sahara|Sahara Desert]] (not including southern and extreme southwestern [[Madagascar]]), [[Bangladesh]], Pakistan, India, [[Sri Lanka]], the [[Nicobar Islands]], [[Burma]], [[Indochina]], southern China, [[Hong Kong]], [[Hainan]], the Malayan region of [[Indonesia]] and the [[Philippines]]
|-
|''[[Simalia]]''
|Gray, 1849
| style="text-align:center;"|6
| style="text-align:center;"|0
|amethystine python species complex
|found in Indonesia (Including the islands of [[Halmahera]], [[Ambon Island|Ambon]], [[Seram Island|Seram]], [[Maluku Islands|Maluku]]), the [[Northern Territory]], northeastern [[Queensland]] into the [[Torres Strait]], and [[Papua New Guinea]]
|}