Aspidites Peters, 1877

Schleip, Wulf D. & O'Shea, Mark, 2010, Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, ZooKeys 66, pp. 29-80 : 37

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.66.683
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scientific name	Aspidites Peters, 1877
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Genus Aspidites Peters, 1877 View in CoL View at ENA

Remarks:

Henderson and Powell (2007) and Swan (2007) did not list subspecies within Aspidites . Aspidites was considered most primitive within the Pythonidae (e.g., Stimson and Underwood 1990, Kluge 1993) due to a lack of thermoreceptive pits in the labial scales. However, current research ( Westhoff and Collin 2008) has revealed that Aspidites possesses a single thermoreceptive pit within the rostralia.