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This page contains a selection of the best links found on the reptile species: Carpet Python (Morelia spilota). The navigation table on the top left will take you directly to the defined topics, such as  Natural Habitat, Captive care, Breeders, Pictures, More information, Other information and Taxonomy.

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A brief snippet about Carpet Python (Morelia spilota)

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Common name: Coastal carpet python Scientific name: Morelia spilota mcdowelli Other common names: Brisbane carpet, common carpet, Queensland carpet General description: This can be a big carpet python, a long snake with a substantial girth, a long neck and a big head. This taxon is distinguished by the absence of a head pattern

Carpet Python (Morlelia spilota) The carpet python is one of the most commonly known snakes. It is variable in colour and pattern and it can grow up to a length of 2 metres. Sometimes it can be confused with the Amethystine Python which has larger more tortoise-like scales on its head.

About This "Care Sheet" I don't really like the term "care sheet" because there is no set recipe for keeping any reptile in captivity. This page just outlines the way I generally keep or have kept carpet pythons and what I've learned along the way. This page isn't meant to be the “final word” on keeping carpets (Morelia spilota) and it's definitely not meant to sound as if my way is the only way. To be honest, Carpets are pretty easy snakes to keep, so there are different methods that will also work quite well. Parts 1 to V1

Carpet pythons make an ideal pet. They are non-venomous, quiet, require minimal maintenance, have minimal odor, fairly docile and feed a maximum of once per week.

Distribution — Various subspecies of this snake are found throughout most of Australia and New Guinea. The more brightly coloured specimens (referred to as 'Jungle Carpets') are found in northern Australia. While darker, but still attractive specimens are found in mostly in the central and southern parts of its habitat.

All of these pythons are slender, semi-arboreal species that tend to be nippy when they are young. Once they outgrow this nippy stage they have wonderful curious dispositions. Jungles and coastals are only available as captive born specimens as Australia does not allow exportation. With regards to the Jayans, captive born specimens are preferred as imported individuals have shown to make poor captives.

Centralian carpet pythons would have to be one of the most beautiful pythons in the world. Their colour varying from dark brick red, almost brown, to bright orange with contrasting bands of cream to yellow surrounded by black. They also come in hypomelanistic form some having no black at all. The hatchlings are a dark muddy brown colour and will change colour with each slough until they reach their adult colouration. They are only a recent discovery being named in 1981 by Graham Gow and given full species status by Kluge in 1993.

The Coastal Carpet Python (Morelia Spilota McDowelli) is one of the widest and most commonly distributed python species in Australia. Often mistaken for or confused with the Diamond Carpet, this species occurs further north. It is also known for the Diamond Python, and the Coastal Python to interbreed, which is unheard of in most other reptile species.

The East Queensland carpet Python (also known as the Coastal or Brisbane Carpet python) is one of the best known and most commonly kept of all Australian snakes. Throughout its range it shows great variability in colour, size and other characteristics and will probably be divided into several subspecies in the future.

Distribution The Irian Jayan carpet python is found in woodland areas in New Guniea. The Jungle carpet python is found in rainforests in the northeastern corner; Atherton tableton, Cairns and Mission Beach portions of Australia for example. The coastal carpet python is found along the entire eastern coast of Australia.

The Jungle Carpet Python (Morelia spilota cheynei) has one of the smallest ranges of all Carpet Pythons and the most famous colouration of this subspecies being the black and gold jungles. The carpet python is a medium-sized slender python with a long neck and a large head with pits on the lips that is broader than the neck.

Vitals: Medium-sized python, not thick-bodied. The head has been likened to the head of a dragon. Jungles have a prehensile tail which aids them in arboreal pursuits. They are not fully arboral like the tree boas and pythons but they will climb on occasion.

Common Name: Jungle Carpet Python Latin name: Morelia spilota cheyneib Native to: Rainforests of Atherton Tablelands of northeastern Queensland, Australia. These pythons have the smallest geographic distribution of any carpet python species. Size: Adults can reach sizes of 4½ to 7 feet in length in captivity.

I'm a private reptile breeder/hobbyist and I live in the Kansas City (Missouri) area. I was born in 1977 and have lived here all my life. Like many reptile enthusiasts, I've been fascinated with animals of all kinds my entire life and I've kept reptiles off and on from the time I was six or seven years old.

The Diamond Python is a wonderful snake. It is stunningly beautiful and highly desired by snake enthusiasts. Many people consider the Diamond Python as the most beautiful snake in the world.

We have been very busy here at RBAH. This past summer we moved into a larger home, I started a new job and we have been flooded with all the specifics of a snake business. Sales have been good and we only have a handful of babies still available from last season.

For those of you who are first time visitors to Reptilicus Reptiles, let us fill you in on who we are and what we offer. Several years ago, upon moving to the mountains of North Carolina, my wife Mary and I decided to turn a lifelong hobby into a full time business. Like all small businesses, we started with almost nothing but our knowledge, a few animals, and a true love for the hobby. Thanks to God, and you the customer, our business is thriving

Striking Serpents is owned and operated by Jaremy and Jared Douglas. We are brothers who both enjoy working with reptiles. Jared and I created Striking Serpents after keeping and breeding snakes for the last decade. We enjoy all aspects of herpetology. We have picked our animals from some of the best breeders in the country. All have been selected for overall quality, color, pattern, feeding response, and temperament.

We have been keeping and breeding snakes for over 10 years, Recently a stay abroad forced us to sell our large collection and on our return we vowed to build a collection of quality animals.

We will be focusing primarily on Jungle Carpets, high percentage Diamond Carpets, Coastal Carpets ( Queenslands too), and three intergrade projects: Jungle x Diamond intergrades Coastal x Diamond intergrades Jungle x Coastal integrades

Nomenclature: Latin name of the species is Morelia spilota. The general english name is Carpet python. Subspecies: At the begining I want to point that I refer to wild specimens, because snakes that exist in both american and europian breeding stocks are either randomly or phenotype-judged and classified to certain subspecies. Morelia spilota is a species that often presents very mild phenotypic diversity, so this feature has to be considered with knowledge of its limitation. Of course there is option to count labial scales, but if one subspecies has limits from 150 to 250 , while the other has limits from 190 to 280.

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