Chondropython Meyer, 1874

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 : 40

Genus Chondropython Meyer, 1874 [synonym of Morelia]

Remarks:

Hoser (2000) resurrected this genus for viridis, and later added two new subspecies viridis shireenae Hoser 2004 and viridis adelynhoserae Hoser 2009 (APP8). Rawlings et al. (2008) demonstrated that two lineages ( “northern” and “southern” lineage) along with the taxon Morelia carinata , form asubclade within the clade that represented Morelia . Although Chondropython is the oldest available name for this subclade, we see no advantage in resurrecting taxa as subgenera in a low-diversity genus.