AnAge entry for Python molurus
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia (Taxon entry)
Order: Squamata
Family: Pythonidae
Genus: Python
- Species
- Python molurus
- Common name
- Indian python
- Synonyms
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Python molurus molurus, Coluber molurus
- Maximum longevity
- 34.2 years (captivity)
- Source
- ref. 485
- Sample size
- Large
- Data quality
- Acceptable
- Observations
- No observations are presently available
- Female sexual maturity
- 1,095 days
- Male sexual maturity
- 1,095 days
- Incubation
- 100 days
- Clutch size
- 40 (oviparous)
- Adult weight
- 12,370 g
- Typical body temperature
- 303ºK or 29.9ºC or 85.7ºF
- Resting metabolic rate
- 1.2661 W
- Body mass
- 12370.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.000102 W/g
- [0037] Gillooly et al. (2001), Effects of size and temperature on metabolic rate (PubMed)
- [0485] Andrew Snider and J. Bowler (1992), Longevity of Reptiles and Amphibians in North American Collections, Second Edition
- [0448] Woodland Park Zoo
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
- ITIS 202187
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- NCBI Taxonomy
- Taxonomy ID 51750
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