This is a list of all extant genera, species, and subspecies of the snakes of the family Pythonidae, otherwise referred to as pythonids or true pythons. It follows the taxonomy currently provided by ITIS,[1] which is based on the continuing work of Roy McDiarmid[2] and has been updated with additional recently described species.[3][4][5]
- Antaresia, Children's pythons
- Antaresia childreni, Children's python, large-blotched python, eastern large-blotched python or banded rock python
- Antaresia maculosa, spotted python, small-blotched python, eastern small-blotched python or eastern Children's python
- Anteresia papuensis, Papuan spotted python
- Antaresia perthensis, pygmy python or anthill python
- Apodora, Papuan python
- Apodora papuana, Papuan python, Irian python or Papuan olive python
- Aspidites, pitless pythons
- Bothrochilus, Bismarck ringed python
- Leiopython, white-lipped pythons
- Liasis, water pythons
- Malayopython, reticulated python and Timor python
- Morelia, tree pythons
- Morelia azurea, northern green tree python
- Morelia azurea azurea
- Morelia azurea pulcher
- Morelia azurea utaraensis
- Morelia bredli, Bredl's python, Bredl's carpet python or Centralian python
- Morelia carinata, rough-scaled python
- Morelia imbricata, southwestern carpet python
- Morelia spilota, carpet python or diamond python
- Morelia spilota cheynei, jungle carpet python
- Morelia spilota mcdowelli, eastern carpet python, coastal carpet python or McDowell's carpet python
- Morelia spilota metcalfei, Murray-Darling carpet python, inland carpet python, riverine carpet python or Victorian carpet python
- Morelia spilota spilota, diamond python
- Morelia spilota variegata, Torresian carpet python, Darwin carpet python, northwestern carpet python or rubber python
- Morelia viridis, southern green tree python
- Nyctophilopython, Oenpelli python
- Python, true pythons sensu stricto
- Python anchietae, Angolan python
- Python bivittatus, Burmese python
- Python bivittatus bivittatus, giant Burmese python
- Python bivittatus progschai, dwarf Burmese python
- Python breitensteini, Borneo python or Borneo short-tailed python
- Python brongersmai, blood python or Brongersma's short-tailed python
- Python curtus, Sumatran short-tailed python
- Python kyaiktiyo, Myanmar short-tailed python
- Python molurus, Indian python, Indian rock python, Asian rock python or black-tailed python
- Python natalensis, Southern African rock python or Natal rock python
- Python regius, ball python or royal python
- Python sebae, Central African rock python
- Simalia, amethystine python species complex