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	The '''reticulated python''' ('''''Malayopython reticulatus''''') is a [[Pythonidae\|python]] species native to [[South Asia\|South]] and [[Southeast Asia]]. It is the world's [[List of largest snakes\|longest snake]], and the [[list of largest snakes\|third heaviest ~~snake~~]]. It is a non-venomous [[Constriction\|constrictor]] and an excellent swimmer that has been reported far out at sea. It has colonized many small islands within its range. Because of its wide distribution, it is listed as [[least concern]] on the [[IUCN Red List]]. In several countries in its range, it is hunted for its skin, for use in [[traditional medicine]], and for sale as [[pets]]. Due to this, it is one of the most economically important reptiles worldwide. ~~In very rare~~ cases, reticulated pythons ~~have killed and swallowed adult humans~~.		The '''reticulated python''' ('''''Malayopython reticulatus''''') is a [[Pythonidae\|python]] species native to [[South Asia\|South]] and [[Southeast Asia]]. It is the world's [[List of largest snakes\|longest snake]], and the [[list of largest snakes\|third heaviest]] after the [[green anaconda]] and [[Burmese python]]. It is a non-venomous [[Constriction\|constrictor]] and an excellent swimmer that has been reported far out at sea. It has colonized many small islands within its range. Because of its wide distribution, it is listed as [[least concern]] on the [[IUCN Red List]]. In several countries in its range, it is hunted for its skin, for use in [[traditional medicine]], and for sale as [[pets]]. Due to this, it is one of the most economically important reptiles worldwide. Adult humans have been killed (and in at least eight reported cases, [[Man-eating animal\|eaten]]) by reticulated pythons in the wild, mainly on [[Sulawesi]].

	==Taxonomy==		==Taxonomy==
	The reticulated python was first described in 1801 by [[Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider]], who described two [[zoological specimen]]s held by the Göttingen Museum in 1801 that differed slightly in colour and pattern as separate species, ''Boa reticulata'' and ''Boa rhombeata''.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Schneider \|first1=J. G. \|author-link=Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider \|year=1801 \|title=Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae Fasciculus Secundus continens Crocodilos, Scincos, Chamaesauras, Boas, Pseudoboas, Elapes, Angues, Amphisbaenas et Caecilias \|location=Jenae \|publisher=Wesselhoeft \|chapter=''Reticulata'' \|chapter-url=https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN582122139?tify={%22pages%22:[274],%22view%22:%22info%22} \|pages=264–266 \|language=la}}</ref> The [[Specific name (zoology)\|specific name]], ''reticulatus'', is [[Latin]] ~~meaning "~~net-like", or [[Wiktionary:reticulated\|reticulated]], and is a reference to the complex color pattern.<ref name="Got">{{cite book \|last1=Gotch \|first1=A. F. \|year=1986 \|title=Reptiles – Their Latin Names Explained \|location=Poole, UK \|publisher=Blandford Press \|isbn=0-7137-1704-1}}</ref> The [[Generic name (biology)\|generic name]] ''Python'' was proposed by [[François Marie Daudin]] in 1803.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Daudin \|first1=F. M. \|author-link=François Marie Daudin\|year=1803 \|title=Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles \|volume=((Tome 8)) \|location=Paris \|publisher=De l'Imprimerie de F. Dufart \|language=fr \|page=384 \|chapter=''Python'' \|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturel181802daud/page/384}}</ref> [[Arnold G. Kluge]] performed a cladistics analysis on morphological characters and recovered the reticulated python lineage as sister to the genus ''Python'', hence not requiring a new generic name in 1993.<ref>{{cite journal \|author1=Kluge, A. G. \|author-link=Arnold G. Kluge\|year=1993 \|title=Aspidites and the phylogeny of pythonine snakes \|journal=Records of the Australian Museum \|issue=Supplement 19 \|pages=1–77}}</ref>		The reticulated python was first described in 1801 by [[Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider]], who described two [[zoological specimen]]s held by the Göttingen Museum in 1801 that differed slightly in colour and pattern as separate species, ''Boa reticulata'' and ''Boa rhombeata''.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Schneider \|first1=J. G. \|author-link=Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider \|year=1801 \|title=Historiae Amphibiorum naturalis et literariae Fasciculus Secundus continens Crocodilos, Scincos, Chamaesauras, Boas, Pseudoboas, Elapes, Angues, Amphisbaenas et Caecilias \|location=Jenae \|publisher=Wesselhoeft \|chapter=''Reticulata'' \|chapter-url=https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN582122139?tify={%22pages%22:[274],%22view%22:%22info%22} \|pages=264–266 \|language=la}}</ref> The [[Specific name (zoology)\|specific name]], ''reticulatus'', is [[Latin]] and means {{gloss\|net-like}}, or [[Wiktionary:reticulated\|reticulated]], and is a reference to the complex color pattern.<ref name="Got">{{cite book \|last1=Gotch \|first1=A. F. \|year=1986 \|title=Reptiles – Their Latin Names Explained \|location=Poole, UK \|publisher=Blandford Press \|isbn=0-7137-1704-1}}</ref> The [[Generic name (biology)\|generic name]] ''Python'' was proposed by [[François Marie Daudin]] in 1803.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Daudin \|first1=F. M. \|author-link=François Marie Daudin\|year=1803 \|title=Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles \|volume=((Tome 8)) \|location=Paris \|publisher=De l'Imprimerie de F. Dufart \|language=fr \|page=384 \|chapter=''Python'' \|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturel181802daud/page/384}}</ref> [[Arnold G. Kluge]] performed a cladistics analysis on morphological characters and recovered the reticulated python lineage as sister to the genus ''Python'', hence not requiring a new generic name in 1993.<ref>{{cite journal \|author1=Kluge, A. G. \|author-link=Arnold G. Kluge\|year=1993 \|title=Aspidites and the phylogeny of pythonine snakes \|journal=Records of the Australian Museum \|issue=Supplement 19 \|pages=1–77}}</ref>

	In a 2004<!-- The publication date on the referenced website says "First published: 28 February 2006". --> genetics study using [[cytochrome b]] DNA, [[species:Robin Lawson\|Robin Lawson]] and colleagues discovered the reticulated python as sister to Australo-Papuan pythons, rather than ''[[Indian python\|Python molurus]]'' and relatives.<ref>{{cite journal \|last1=Lawson \|first1=R. \|author-link=species:Robin Lawson \|last2=Slowinski \|first2=J. B. \|author-link2=Joseph Bruno Slowinski\|last3=Burbrink \|first3=F. T. \|author3-link=species:Frank T. Burbrink \|date=2006 \|title=A molecular approach to discerning the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic snake ''Xenophidion schaeferi'' among the Alethinophidia \|journal=Journal of Zoology \|volume=263 \|issue=3 \|pages=285–294 \|doi=10.1017/S0952836904005278}}</ref> [[Raymond Hoser]] erected the genus ''Broghammerus'' for the reticulated python in 2004, naming it after the German snake breeder Stefan Broghammer, on the basis of dorsal patterns distinct from those of the genus ''Python'', and a dark mid-dorsal line from the rear to the front of the head, and red or orange (rather than brown) iris colour.<ref name="Hos04">{{cite journal \|last1=Hoser \|first1=R. \|year=2004 \|title=A Reclassification of the Pythoninae Including the Descriptions of Two New Genera, Two New Species, and Nine New Subspecies. Part II \|url=http://www.smuggled.com/pytrev2.htm \|journal=Crocodilian - Journal of the Victorian Association of Amateur Herpetologists \|volume=4 \|issue=4 \|pages=21–40}}</ref> <!-- cites previous 2 sentences -->In 2008, Lesley H. Rawlings and colleagues reanalysed Kluge's morphological data and combined it with genetic material, finding the reticulated clade to be an offshoot of the Australo-Papuan lineage as well. They adopted and redefined the genus name ''Broghammerus''.<ref name="Rawl01">{{cite journal \|last1=Rawlings \|first1=L. H. \|last2=Rabosky \|first2=D. L. \|author2-link=species:Daniel L. Rabosky \|last3=Donnellan \|first3=S.C. \|author-link3=Steve Donnellan (scientist)\|last4=Hutchinson \|first4=M. N. \|author4-link=species:Mark Norman Hutchinson \|title=Python phylogenetics: inference from morphology and mitochondrial DNA \|year=2008 \|journal=[[Biological Journal of the Linnean Society]] \|volume=93 \|issue=3 \|pages=603–619 \|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00904.x \|doi-access=free}}</ref>		In a 2004<!-- The publication date on the referenced website says "First published: 28 February 2006". --> genetics study using [[cytochrome b]] DNA, [[species:Robin Lawson\|Robin Lawson]] and colleagues discovered the reticulated python as sister to Australo-Papuan pythons, rather than ''[[Indian python\|Python molurus]]'' and relatives.<ref>{{cite journal \|last1=Lawson \|first1=R. \|author-link=species:Robin Lawson \|last2=Slowinski \|first2=J. B. \|author-link2=Joseph Bruno Slowinski\|last3=Burbrink \|first3=F. T. \|author3-link=species:Frank T. Burbrink \|date=2006 \|title=A molecular approach to discerning the phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic snake ''Xenophidion schaeferi'' among the Alethinophidia \|journal=Journal of Zoology \|volume=263 \|issue=3 \|pages=285–294 \|doi=10.1017/S0952836904005278}}</ref> [[Raymond Hoser]] erected the genus ''Broghammerus'' for the reticulated python in 2004, naming it after the German snake breeder Stefan Broghammer, on the basis of dorsal patterns distinct from those of the genus ''Python'', and a dark mid-dorsal line from the rear to the front of the head, and red or orange (rather than brown) iris colour.<ref name="Hos04">{{cite journal \|last1=Hoser \|first1=R. \|year=2004 \|title=A Reclassification of the Pythoninae Including the Descriptions of Two New Genera, Two New Species, and Nine New Subspecies. Part II \|url=http://www.smuggled.com/pytrev2.htm \|journal=Crocodilian - Journal of the Victorian Association of Amateur Herpetologists \|volume=4 \|issue=4 \|pages=21–40}}</ref> <!-- cites previous 2 sentences -->In 2008, Lesley H. Rawlings and colleagues reanalysed Kluge's morphological data and combined it with genetic material, finding the reticulated clade to be an offshoot of the Australo-Papuan lineage as well. They adopted and redefined the genus name ''Broghammerus''.<ref name="Rawl01">{{cite journal \|last1=Rawlings \|first1=L. H. \|last2=Rabosky \|first2=D. L. \|author2-link=species:Daniel L. Rabosky \|last3=Donnellan \|first3=S.C. \|author-link3=Steve Donnellan (scientist)\|last4=Hutchinson \|first4=M. N. \|author4-link=species:Mark Norman Hutchinson \|title=Python phylogenetics: inference from morphology and mitochondrial DNA \|year=2008 \|journal=[[Biological Journal of the Linnean Society]] \|volume=93 \|issue=3 \|pages=603–619 \|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00904.x \|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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	\|doi=10.1007/s00114-002-0320-4\|pmid=12135085\|bibcode=2002NW.....89..201A\|s2cid=4368895}}</ref> but are not recognized in the [[Integrated Taxonomic Information System]]. The color and size can vary a great deal among the subspecies described. Geographical location is a good key to establishing the subspecies, as each one has a distinct geographical range.		\|doi=10.1007/s00114-002-0320-4\|pmid=12135085\|bibcode=2002NW.....89..201A\|s2cid=4368895}}</ref> but are not recognized in the [[Integrated Taxonomic Information System]]. The color and size can vary a great deal among the subspecies described. Geographical location is a good key to establishing the subspecies, as each one has a distinct geographical range.

	The reticulated python lives in rainforests, woodlands, and nearby grasslands. It is also associated with rivers and is found in areas with nearby streams and lakes. An excellent swimmer, it has even been reported far out at sea and has consequently colonized many small islands within its range.<ref name="Meh87"/> During the early years of the 20th century, it is said to have been common even in busy parts of [[Bangkok]], sometimes eating domestic animals.<ref name="Sti74">Stidworthy J (1974). ''Snakes of the World''. Grosset & Dunlap Inc. 160 pp. {{ISBN\|0-448-11856-4}}.</ref>		The reticulated python lives in rainforests, woodlands, and nearby grasslands. It is also associated with rivers and is found in areas with nearby streams and lakes. An excellent swimmer, it has even been reported far out at sea and has consequently colonized many small islands within its range.<ref name="Meh87"/> During the early years of the 20th century, it is said to have been common even in busy parts of [[Bangkok]], sometimes eating domestic animals.<ref name="Sti74">Stidworthy J (1974). ''Snakes of the World''. Grosset & Dunlap Inc. p. 160. {{ISBN\|0-448-11856-4}}.</ref>

	==Behaviour and ecology==		==Behaviour and ecology==

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