Haha, scrubs are another of my favorite python species. Definately a favorite among the larger pythons (aside from rock pythons). Last I checked, scrub pythons (amethestine pythons) encompassed
Morelia amethistina amethistina and
Morelia amethistina kinghorni. But after seeing your thread I looked into it, and sure enough,
M. a. kinghorni has been granted it's own species. So as far as common names go,
M. kinghorni is the new official scrub python and
M. amethistina is the amethistine python.
On top of that, the study that brought about the revision of the
Morelia ametistina ssp. in the year 2000 discovered three new species, which formerly fell into the two previous subspecies.
Morelia clastolepis (Mollucan python),
Morelia nauta (Tanimbar dwarf python), and
Morelia tracyae (Halmahera python) are all former
Morelia ametistina. Very cool
lol, thanks for being the catalyst to some intriguing research
God I'm a nerd.
