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General Information About the White Lipped Python (Python regius)
The White Lipped Python, also known as the D'Alberts Python, is a medium sized unpatterned python with the head clearly distinct from the neck. Depending on which geographical/color race the specimen is from, dorsal color of northern race specimens is either golden (mainly Sorong) or yellowish-brown to cupper-brownish (Mandang) with yellowish flanks. The southern race is blackish-blue fading to greyish over the flanks. Both races have white bellies. The white-lipped python has a long black head with a long snout with the typical vertical black markings at the anterior edge of the upper labials. The white-lipped python has big light gray eyes.
The White-Lipped Python occurs throughout most parts of tropical New Guinea and nearby islands. Two geographical or colour races are known for common usage and pet trade. The "northern" or "golden" race occurs north of the central dividing mountain range and are found all along the north of the mountain range from Sorong to the east coast of PNG. Populations are also known from Salawati island (West Irian, Indonesia), Biak island (West Irian, Indonesia), the islands of the Bismarck Archipelago (New Ireland, PNG). The "southern" or "black" race occurs in the south of the mountain range. Specimens of the southern race were collected as far west as Timika, (West Irian, Indonesia) to the east coast of PNG (Central District) and from the northern most islands of the Torres Strait, politically belonging to Australia
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