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COMMON NAME: Black-headed
Python
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Aspidites melanocephalus
FAMILY: Boidae
GENUS: Aspidites
STATUS: Secure
SIZE (cm): 250 |
DESCRIPTION: Largest Aspidites. Ground colour cream,
pale yellowish-brown to reddish-brown; palest bearing sharpest pattern
in far west of range (west Kimberley region, W.A. south-westwards).
Numerous dark brown to blackish bands (usually narrower than pale interspaces)
extend between neck and tail-tip. These may be disjunct, or coalesced
to form a dark suffusion along vertebral line. Head, neck and throat
glossy black.
PREFERRED HABITAT: Woodlands, rocky ranges and outcrops
of subhumid northern Australia. Absent from extremely arid areas,
and from cracking clay soils of western Qld. and adjacent N.T. Extends
from North West Cape, W.A. through northern N.T. (as far south as
Tea-Tree) to Qld. (south on coast to Gladstone district).
MICROHABITAT: Shelters in hollow logs, crevices,
caves and abandoned burrows of monitors and mammals.
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