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Title	Authors	Year	Journal
Silver spoons and snake body sizes: prey availability early in life influences long‐term growth rates of free‐ranging pythons Keywords: Liasis fuscus	Madsen & Shine	2000	Journal of Animal Ecology
Sir William John Macleay (1820 - 1891) Parliamentary Service Records Keywords: Aspidites Ramsayi	Members	2026	-
Snake life history traits and their association with urban habitat use in a tropical city	Lettoof et al.	2023	Urban Ecosystems
Snake velvet black: Hierarchical micro- and nanostructure enhances dark colouration in Bitis rhinoceros Keywords: Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Skin Pigmentation	Spinner et al.	2013	Scientific Reports
Some New and Old Genera of S.-American Aviculariidae	Pocock	1947	Nature
Sound garden: How snakes respond to airborne and groundborne sounds	Zdenek et al.	2023	PLOS ONE
Spatial ecology, activity patterns, and habitat use by giant pythons (Simalia amethistina) in tropical Australia Keywords: Simalia amethistina, Australia	Natusch, Lyons, & Shine	2022	Scientific Reports
Spatial ecology of a secretive Chihuahuan Desert colubrid, Lampropeltis alterna (Brown, 1901), in West Texas Keywords: Behavioural ecology, Gray-banded Kingsnake, home range, movement ecology, natural history, radiotelemetry, Lampropeltis alterna	DeSantis et al.	2024	Animal Ecology 81: 738–746.
Spatial ecology of a threatened python (Morelia spilota imbricata) and the effects of anthropogenic habitat change Keywords: carpet python, fire, geographical variation, habitat use, movement, seasonality, telemetry, Morelia imbricata	D. PEARSON	2005	Austral Ecology (2005) 30, 261–274
Spatial ecology of hatchling water pythons (Liasis fuscus) in tropical Australia Keywords: Australia	Pizzatto et al.	2009	Journal of Tropical Ecology
Spatial subdivision within a population of tropical pythons (Liasis fuscus) in a superficially homogeneous habitat Keywords: Liasis fuscus, genetic fragmentation, metapopulation, population ecology, snakes, tropics	Madsen & Shine	1998	Australian Journal of Ecology
Spatial Variation and Survival of Salmonella enterica Subspecies in a Population of Australian Sleepy Lizards (Tiliqua rugosa) Keywords: Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, Vibrio bacteria research studies, Tiliqua rugosa, Australia	Parsons, Bull, & Gordon	2015	Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Species, Clades, and their Relationship to Paraphyly and Monophyly: Examples from the Pantherophis obsoletus Complex Keywords: Pantherophis obsoletus, Pantherophis bairdi	Hillis	2022	Herpetological Review
Species delimitation and systematics of the green pythons (Morelia viridis complex) of melanesia and Australia Keywords: Morelia viridis, Australia	Natusch et al.	2020	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Species delimitation and systematics of the green pythons (Morelia viridis complex) of melanesia and Australia - supplemental doc Keywords: Morelia viridis, Australia	Natusch et al.	2020	Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Species Delimitation with Gene Flow	Jackson et al.	2016	Systematic Biology
Species identification of protected carpet pythons suitable for degraded forensic samples Keywords: Morelia spilota metcalfei, phylogeny, Flinders	Ciavaglia et al.	2014	Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology
Standard English Name Formation Guidelines 2025.06	SSAR	2023	-
Standard metabolic rate and preferred body temperatures in some Australian pythons Keywords: Australia	Bedford & Christian	1999	Australian Journal of Zoology
Statement of David G. Barker Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform	Barker	2011	Zoology 52: 215–227.
Status of the woma, Aspidites ramsayi, in south-west Western Australia Keywords: Aspidites ramsayi, Aspidites, Australia	MARYAN	2016	The Western Australian Naturalist
Strangers in a strange land: ecology of the Australian colubrid snakes Keywords: Liasis fuscus, Australia	Shine	1991	-
Summary Review of The Granites Goldfield Keywords: Morelia bredli	Wilson	1979	North Flinders Mines
Surface Topography and Ultrastructure of the Spectacular Cells in the Eyes of Land and Sea Snakes (Squamata, Reptilia): Functional Adaptations of Micro‐Ornamentation Keywords: Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Ocular Surface and Contact Lens, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Eye, Snakes, Adaptation, Physiological	Collin et al.	2025	Journal of Morphology

Silver spoons and snake body sizes: prey availability early in life influences long‐term growth rates of free‐ranging pythons

Keywords:

Liasis fuscus

Madsen & Shine

2000

Journal of Animal Ecology

Sir William John Macleay (1820 - 1891) Parliamentary Service Records

Keywords:

Aspidites Ramsayi

Members

2026

-

Snake life history traits and their association with urban habitat use in a tropical city

Lettoof et al.

2023

Urban Ecosystems

Snake velvet black: Hierarchical micro- and nanostructure enhances dark colouration in Bitis rhinoceros

Keywords:

Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Skin Pigmentation

Spinner et al.

2013

Scientific Reports

Some New and Old Genera of S.-American Aviculariidae

Pocock

1947

Nature

Sound garden: How snakes respond to airborne and groundborne sounds

Zdenek et al.

2023

PLOS ONE

Spatial ecology, activity patterns, and habitat use by giant pythons (Simalia amethistina) in tropical Australia

Keywords:

Simalia amethistina, Australia

Natusch, Lyons, & Shine

2022

Scientific Reports

Spatial ecology of a secretive Chihuahuan Desert colubrid, Lampropeltis alterna (Brown, 1901), in West Texas

Keywords:

Behavioural ecology, Gray-banded Kingsnake, home range, movement ecology, natural history, radiotelemetry, Lampropeltis alterna

DeSantis et al.

2024

Animal Ecology 81: 738–746.

Spatial ecology of a threatened python (Morelia spilota imbricata) and the effects of anthropogenic habitat change

Keywords:

carpet python, fire, geographical variation, habitat use, movement, seasonality, telemetry, Morelia imbricata

D. PEARSON

2005

Austral Ecology (2005) 30, 261–274

Spatial ecology of hatchling water pythons (Liasis fuscus) in tropical Australia

Keywords:

Australia

Pizzatto et al.

2009

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Spatial subdivision within a population of tropical pythons (Liasis fuscus) in a superficially homogeneous habitat

Keywords:

Liasis fuscus, genetic fragmentation, metapopulation, population ecology, snakes, tropics

Madsen & Shine

1998

Australian Journal of Ecology

Spatial Variation and Survival of Salmonella enterica Subspecies in a Population of Australian Sleepy Lizards (Tiliqua rugosa)

Keywords:

Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, Aquaculture disease management and microbiota, Vibrio bacteria research studies, Tiliqua rugosa, Australia

Parsons, Bull, & Gordon

2015

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Species, Clades, and their Relationship to Paraphyly and Monophyly: Examples from the Pantherophis obsoletus Complex

Keywords:

Pantherophis obsoletus, Pantherophis bairdi

Hillis

2022

Herpetological Review

Species delimitation and systematics of the green pythons (Morelia viridis complex) of melanesia and Australia

Keywords:

Morelia viridis, Australia

Natusch et al.

2020

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Species delimitation and systematics of the green pythons (Morelia viridis complex) of melanesia and Australia - supplemental doc

Keywords:

Morelia viridis, Australia

Natusch et al.

2020

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Species Delimitation with Gene Flow

Jackson et al.

2016

Systematic Biology

Species identification of protected carpet pythons suitable for degraded forensic samples

Keywords:

Morelia spilota metcalfei, phylogeny, Flinders

Ciavaglia et al.

2014

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology

Standard English Name Formation Guidelines 2025.06

SSAR

2023

-

Standard metabolic rate and preferred body temperatures in some Australian pythons

Keywords:

Australia

Bedford & Christian

1999

Australian Journal of Zoology

Statement of David G. Barker Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Barker

2011

Zoology 52: 215–227.

Status of the woma, Aspidites ramsayi, in south-west Western Australia

Keywords:

Aspidites ramsayi, Aspidites, Australia

MARYAN

2016

The Western Australian Naturalist

Strangers in a strange land: ecology of the Australian colubrid snakes

Keywords:

Liasis fuscus, Australia

Shine

1991

-

Summary Review of The Granites Goldfield

Keywords:

Morelia bredli

Wilson

1979

North Flinders Mines

Surface Topography and Ultrastructure of the Spectacular Cells in the Eyes of Land and Sea Snakes (Squamata, Reptilia): Functional Adaptations of Micro‐Ornamentation

Keywords:

Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Ocular Surface and Contact Lens, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Eye, Snakes, Adaptation, Physiological

Collin et al.

2025

Journal of Morphology