Black-headed Python
Aspidites melanocephalus
- Class
- Reptile
- Family
- Pythonidae
- Genus
- Aspidites
- Also known as
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Black-headed Python research
13 published papers in the HerpAtlas library. Most cited below, or see the latest research →
- Patterns of postnatal ontogeny of the skull and lower jaw of snakes as revealed by micro-CT scan data and three-dimensional geometric morphometrics.
Journal of anatomy · 2016 · cited 26 times
- The first reptilian circovirus identified infects gut and liver tissues of black-headed pythons.
Veterinary research · 2019 · cited 15 times
- Cross reactivity between venomous, mildly venomous, and non-venomous snake venoms with the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Venom Detection Kit.
Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2004 · cited 15 times
- Hepatic lipidosis in a black-headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus).
The veterinary clinics of North America. Exotic animal practice · 2006 · cited 8 times
- Host specificity and host range of the genus Sarcocystis in three snake-rodent life cycles.
Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Mikrobiologie, und Hygiene. Series A, Medical microbiology, infectious diseases, virology, parasitology · 1984 · cited 8 times
- Facultative thermogenesis during brooding is not the norm among pythons.
Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015 · cited 4 times
- Paramyxoviruses in Australian snakes
Murdoch University Research Portal · 2012 · cited 2 times
- Ticks on snakes: The ecological correlates of ectoparasite infection in free‐ranging snakes in tropical Australia
Austral Ecology. · 2018 · cited 2 times
Black-headed Python natural history notes
Field and captive observations published in Herpetological Review's Natural History Notes. Each is a single observation, summarized by us, with a link to the original.
Diet
Paul Oliver · 2015 · Herpetological Review 46(1): 99 · Read the note
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