Simalia tracyae
Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Pythonidae
Genus: Simalia
Species: Simalia tracyae
Name
Simalia tracyae (Harvey, Barker, Ammerman & Chippindale, 2000)
- Holotype: UTA 44473, adult ♂, purchased from a skin dealer, collected in February 1995.
- Type locality: “near Tobelo”, Halmahera Island, Moluccas Islands, Indonesia.
Combinations
- Morelia tracyae Harvey, Barker, Ammerman & Chippindale, 2000: 166 [original combination]
- Simalia tracyae — Reynolds, Niemiller & Revell, 2014: 211 [subsequent combination]
Native distribution areas
- Indonesia: Moluccas Islands: Halmahera, Bacan and Morotai islands.
References
Primary references
- Harvey, M.B., Barker, D.B., Ammerman, L.K. & Chippindale, P.T. 2000. Systematics of pythons of the Morelia amethistina complex (Serpentes: Boidae) with the description of three new species. Herpetological Monographs 14: 139–185. DOI: 10.2307/1467047
Reference page. - Reynolds, R.G., Niemiller, M.L. & Revell, L.J. 2014. Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 201–213. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.011
Reference page.
Links
- Iskandar, D. & Stubbs, A. 2021. IUCN: Simalia tracyae (Data Deficient). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T42494277A42494283. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T42494277A42494283.en. Accessed on 11 September 2025.
Vernacular names
- English: Halmahera Python