Directory of Children's Pythons Resources

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This category contains sites pertaining to the keeping of Children's Pythons and related species as pets. This includes care sheets, advice, photos and anecdotes from owners, and other information of use to people who own, or want to own, a Children's Python or related snake. For the purposes of this category, "Children's Python and related species" includes the following Australian snakes: -- Children's Python (Antaresia childreni, was Bothrochilus childreni and Liasis childreni) -- Spotted Python (Antaresia maculosa, was Liasis maculosus and Bothrochilus maculosus) -- Stimson's Python or Large Blotch Python (Antaresia stimsoni stimsoni or Antaresia stimsoni orientalis, was Bothrochilus stimsoni) -- Ant-Hill Python, aka Western Children's Python, aka Pygmy Python (Liasis perthensis, was Bothrochilus perthensis) Sites pertaining to other breeds of boids (Pythons and Boas) should be placed in the appropriate subcategory under Pets: Herp: Reptiles: Snakes: Boas and Pythons. Sites pertaining to non-boids should be placed in the appropriate subcategory under Pets: Herp: Reptiles: Snakes. Sales pages (as opposed to care and breed information pages) belonging to breeders should be placed under Recreation: Pets: Herp: Breeders and Dealers.

Resources in This Category

• Australian Pythons: The Smaller Liasis

  http://www.smuggled.com/auspyt2.htm
  This article, originally published in The Herpetile, discusses the keeping of Children's Pythons and Ant-Hill Pythons in captivity.

• Children's Pythons and Lookalikes

  http://www.smuggled.com/chicom1.htm
  An article by Raymond T. Hoser, originally published in The Reptilian. It discusses the classification, biology in the wild, captivity, and captive hybridization of Children's, Stimpson's and Spotted Pythons.

• The Ant-Hill Python from Western Australia

  http://www.smuggled.com/ant1.htm
  This article, published in Reptiles Magazine in 1995, discusses the natural history, conservation and captive care of the Ant-Hill Python, aka Western Children's Python or Pygmy Python.

 

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