Simalia

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Henophidia

Familia: Pythonidae
Genus: Simalia
Species (6): S. amethistina – S. boeleni – S. clastolepis – S. kinghorni – S. nauta – S. tracyae
Name

Simalia Gray 1849:91
Type Species:

Synonymy

Simalia Gray 1849:91

References

Gray J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xv + 125 pp. (Simalia, new genus, p. 91).

Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.

Taxonomy

Simalia Gray, 1849, was a taxonomic synonym of

Liasis (a genus of non-venomous pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia) and
Morelia (a genus of large snakes, in the family Pythonidae, found in Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea),

but Reynolds et al. (2014)[1] resurrected the genus for the Morelia amethistina species group (which, together with Morelia viridis had made genus Morelia paraphyletic).
Species

The genus Simalia contains the following species:

Image	Species	Distribution
	S. amethistina (Schneider, 1801) (type species)	Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.
	S. boeleni (Brongersma, 1953)	New Guinea
	S. clastolepis (Harvey et al., 2000)	Indonesia.
	S. kinghorni (Stull, 1933)	northern Australia.
	S. nauta (Harvey et al., 2000)	Indonesia.
	S. tracyae (Harvey et al., 2000)	Indonesian island of Halmahera.

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Simalia.
References

Reynolds, R. Graham; Niemiller, Matthew L.; Revell, Liam J. (2014). "Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71: 201-213.

Further reading

Gray JE (1849). Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xv + 125 pp. (Simalia, new genus, p. 91).