Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Related bibliographies: Reptiles Snakes Pythonidae Australia Malay Archipelago Taxonomy of the genus Morelia Biodiversity of the family Pythonidae Bibliography of the genus Morelia (Carpet Pythons and allies) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Pythonidae) Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted. Morelia in general Harvey, M.B.; Barker, D.G.; 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. Hoser, R. 1982. Frequency of sloughing in captive Morelia, Liasis, and Acanthophis (Serpentes). Herptile 7(3): 20-26. Hoser, R.T. 2003. Five new Australian pythons. Macarthur Herpetological Society Monthly Newsletter 40: 4-9. Johnson, C.R. 1977. Thermoregulation in pythons. 4. Thermoregulation in the Papuan-New Guinean pythons within the genera Python, Liasis and Chondropython. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 60(2): 189-195. Mense, M. 2006. Rautenpythons. Morelia bredli, Morelia carinata und der Morelia-spilota-Komplex. NTV, Münster. 207 pp. Mense, M. 2015. Carpet Pythons - Morelia bredli, Morelia carinata and the Morelia spilota complex. 2nd rev. ed. Natur und Tier-Verlag, Münster. 216 pp. Mense, M. 2015. Rautenpythons - Morelia bredli, Morelia carinata und der Morelia spilota-Komplex. 2nd rev. ed. Natur und Tier-Verlag, Münster. 216 pp. Mense, M. 2016. Python-Schönheiten von der anderen Seite der Welt: Morelia, die Baum- und Rautenpythons. Reptilia (D) 21(118): 18-26. Mutton, N.; Julander, J. 2011. The Complete Carpet Python -A Comprehensive Guide to the natural History, care, and Breeding of the Morelia spilota Complex. ECO Herpetological Publishing, Rodeo, New Mexico. 350 pp. Smith, L.A. 1981. A revision of the python genera Aspidites and Python (Serpentes: Boidae) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9(2): 211-226. Williams, K.L. 1987. Comments on the snake generic names Antaresia and Australiasis. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 23(2): 69-71. Morelia bredli Fyfe, G. 1990. Notes on the central carpet python Morelia spilota bredli. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 20(2): 11-14. Gow, G.F. 1981. A new species of Python from central Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology 1(1): 29-34. Hoser, R. 1999. Hybridisation in carpet snakes. Genus: Morelia (Serpentes: Pythoninae) and other Australian pythons. Herptile 24(2): 61-67. Mense, M. 2006. Rautenpythons. Morelia bredli, Morelia carinata und der Morelia-spilota-Komplex. NTV, Münster. 207 pp. Rössel, D. 2016. Seltenes Ausstellungstier: Morelia bredli im Zoo Frankfurt. Reptilia (D) 21(118): 40-43. Morelia carinata Alcini, S. 2009. Seltene und wenig bekannte Pythons aus Australien. 1. Der Rauschuppenpython, Morelia carinata. Reptilia (D) 14(79): 28-32. Krug, O. 2016. Morelia carinata – Der etwas andere Python! Reptilia (D) 21(118): 34-39. Mense, M. 2006. Rautenpythons. Morelia bredli, Morelia carinata und der Morelia-spilota-Komplex. NTV, Münster. 207 pp. Smith, L.A. 1981. A revision of the python genera Aspidites and Python (Serpentes: Boidae) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 9(2): 211-226. Weigel, J.; Russell, T. 1993. A record of a third specimen of the rough-scaled python Morelia carinata. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 23(2): 1-5. Morelia spilota Anonymous. 2005. Morelia spilota carpet python; Diamond Python (Lacepede, 1804). Reptilia (GB) 42: 43-46. Abbott, I. 2008. Historical perspectives of the ecology of some conspicuous vertebrate species in south-west Western Australia. Conservation Science Western Australia 6(3): 1-214. Amundsen, U. 1999. Morelia s. spilota. Keeping and breeding the diamond python. Reptilia (GB) 8: 34-38. Amundsen, U. 2003. Morelia spilota spilota - Haltung und Nachzucht des Diamantpythons. Reptilia (D) 8(39): 30-33. Arth, S.; Baus, S. 2010. Haltung und Nachzucht des Dschungel-Teppichpythons, Morelia spilota cheynei. Draco 11(44): 60-66. Ayers, D.Y.; Shine, R. 1997. Thermal influences on foraging ability: body size, posture and cooling rate of an ambush predator, the python Morelia spilota. Functional Ecology 11(3): 342-347. Banks, C.; Schwaner, T.D. 1984. Two cases of interspecific hybridization among captive Australian boid snakes. Zoo Biology 3(3): 221-227. Barker, D.; Barker, T. 1995. A new python in captivity from New Guinea. The New Guinea carpet python and the Sawu python a correct common name. Vivarium (Lakeside) 6(6): 30-33. Bedford, G. 1992. Observation of scent following in a male carpet python (Morelia spilota variegata). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 22(2): 45. Bedford, G. 1996. Successful breeding of the diamond python (Morelia s. spilota) in the wet/dry tropics of northern Australia. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 26(2): 19-21. Bedford, G.; Christian, K.A. 1998. Standard metabolic rate and preferred body temperatures in some Australian pythons. Australian Journal of Zoology 46(4): 317-328. Bels, V.L.; Sande, P.A. van den 1986. Breeding the Australian Carpet Python Morelia spilotes variegata at Antwerp Zoo. International Zoo Yearbook 24-25 [1984-1985]: 231-238. Boos, H.E.A. 1979. Some breeding records of Australian pythons Pythonidae. International Zoo Yearbook 19: 87-89. Borch, C. 1926. Carpet snake's meal. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 43: 120-121. Brashears, J.; DeNardo, D.F. 2015. Facultative thermogenesis during brooding is not the norm among pythons. Journal of Comparative Physiology A Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 201(8): 817-825. Brien, M.L.; Brien, C.H.; Reed, R.N. 2008. Natural history notes: Morelia spilota spilota (Diamond Python). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 39(3): 355. Broer, W. 1983. Erfolgreiche Haltung und Nachzucht des Teppich- oder Rautenpythons, Python spilotus variegatus (Gray, 1842) (Serpentes, Boidae). Salamandra 19(1-2): 84-93. Bröer, W. 1983. Erfolgreiche Haltung und Nachzucht des Teppich- oder Rautenpythons, Python spilotes variegatus. Salamandra 19: 84-93. Bryant, G.L.; Bateman, P.W.; Fleming, P.A. 2011. Tantalising tongues: male carpet pythons use chemoreception to differentiate among females. Australian Journal of Zoology 59(1): 42-48. Bryant, G.L.; Dundas, S.J.; Fleming, P.A. 2012. Tree hollows are of conservation importance for a near-threatened python species. Journal of Zoology (London) 286(1): 81-92. Bryant, G.L.; Tores, P.J. de; Warren, K.A.; Fleming, P.A. 2012. Does body size influence thermal biology and diet of a python (Morelia spilota imbricata). Austral Ecology 37(5): 583-591. Bush, B. 1988. An unsuccessful breeding record for the Western Australian Carpet Python, Morelia spilota imbricata. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 18(1): 30-31. Bush, B. 1997. Captive reproduction in the south-western carpet python, Morelia spilota imbricata, including an exceptional fasting record of a reproductively active female. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 27(2): 8-12. Charles, N.; Field, R.; Shine, R. 1985. Notes on the reproductive biology of Australian pythons, genera Aspidites, Liasis and Morelia. Herpetological Review 16(2): 45-48. Chisholm, E.C. 1926. Additional fauna of the Comboyne Plateau, 1925-1926, Amphibia, Reptilia. Australian Zoologist 4: 296-297. Clements, T. 2008. Keeping & breeding the west Papuan carpet python Morelia spilota harrisoni. Herptile 33(4): 126-135. Cogger, H.G.; Holmes, A. 1961. Thermoregulatory behaviour in a specimen of Morelia spilotes variegata Gray (Serpentes: Boidae). Proe. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 86: 328-333. Cook, R.A. 1994. Nesting site observations of the diamond python Morelia spilota spilota. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 24(1): 22-24. Corey, B.; Doody, J.S. 2010. Anthropogenic influences on the spatial ecology of a semi-arid python. Journal of Zoology (London) 281(4): 293-302. Corey, B.; Doody, J.S. 2016. Black box and attics: habitat selection and resource use by large threatened pythons in landscapes with contrasting human modification. Austral Ecology 41(1): 6-15. Covacevich, J.A. 1975. Snakes in combat. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 92(12): 252-253. Covacevich, J.A.; Couper, P.J. 1992. The carpet python, Morelia spilota (Lacepede), another unsuccessful predator of the cane toad, Bufo marinus (Linnaeus), in Australia. pp. 52-59. In: Strimple, P.D. & Strimple, J.L. (eds.). Contributions in herpetology. Greater Cincinnati Herpetological Society, Cincinnati. 111 pp. Cundall, D.; Deufel, A. 1999. Striking patterns in booid snakes. Copeia 1999(4): 868-883. Dawson, R.; Saunders, D.A.; Mawson, P. 2011. The vulnerable and the endangered: Carpet Python predation on a breeding female Carnaby's Black Cockatoo. Australian Zoologist 35(3): 679-680. DeGabriel, J.L.; Moore, B.D.; Foley, W.J.; Johnson, C.N. 2014. Male-biased predation and its effect on paternity skew and life history in a population of Common Brushtail Possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). PLoS ONE 9(11): e111746. Fearn, S. 1996. Captive growth of a carpet python Morelia spilota. Litteratura Serpentium (English Edition) 16(4): 94-101. Fearn, S. 1996. Captive growth of a Carpet Python Morelia spilota (Serpentes: Boidae). Monitor (Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society) 7(3): 169-176 Fearn, S. 2005. Evidence of a juvenile skewed population of carpet pythons Morelia spilota (Serpentes: Pythonidae) from Magnet Island, north Queensland. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 35(2): 87-92. Fearn, S.; Robinson, B.; Sambono, J.; Shine, R. 2001. Pythons in the pergola: the ecology of 'nuisance' carpet pythons (Morelia spilota) from suburban habitats in south-eastern Queensland. Wildlife Research 28(6): 573-579. Fill, J.M.; Freeman, A.B.; Story, G.; Curran, T.J. 2013. Predation on a cryptic rainforest rodent (Pogonomys sp.) by a carpet python (Morelia spilota). Australian Mammalogy 35(2): 224-226. Fill, J.M.; McBride, P.; Powell, A.J.; Shanahan, L.K.; Stark, J.R.; Freeman, A.B.; Curran, T.J. 2012. Diet of Amethystine (Morelia kinghorni) and Carpet Pythons (Morelia spilota) in North Queensland, Australia. Herpetological Review 43(1): 30-34. Firth, R.S.C. 2004. Carpet Python (Morelia spilota variegata) predation on the Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat (Conilurus pencillatus melibus) on Melville Island, Northern Territory. Herpetofauna (Sydney) 34(2): 105-106. Freeman, A.; Bruce, C. 2007. The things you find on the road: roadkill and incidental data as an indicator of habitat use in two species of tropical pythons. pp. 152-165. 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A second case of bicephalism in Queensland carpet snakes (Morelia spilota mcdowelli) (Serpentes: Pythonidae). Herpetofauna (Sydney) 35(1): 61. James, B. 1998. Carpet Snake (Morelia spilota mcdowelli) eggs in a banana plantation. Monitor (Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society) 9(2): 9-13. Johnson, C.R. 1972. Thermoregulation in pythons. 1. Effect of shelter, substrate type and posture onbody temperature of the Australian carpet python, Morelia spilotes variegata.. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology (A) 43(2): 271-278. Jones, E.M. 1923. Carpet snake. Austral. Nat. Sydney 5: 99. Kortlang, S. 1994. Husbandry and reproduction of the Northern Territory/Kimberley form carpet python, Morelia spilota variegata (Gray, 1842). Litteratura Serpentium (English Edition) 14(1): 25-32. Longley, G. 1944. Note on the feeding and rearing of young diamond snakes (Python spilotes). Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1943-44: 23-24. Lucien, R. 1997. 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