Python Flowers

Sanca flower is a kind of venomous snakes are not large. The biggest size is said to exceed 10 meters. Longer than an anaconda (Eunectes), the largest and longest snake in South America.

Python is easily recognizable because the flowers are generally large. Family python (Pythonidae) relatively easily distinguished from other snakes by looking at the dorsal scales are more than 45 rows, and scales ventralnya narrower than the width of the underside of her body. In western Indonesia, there are five species: three species of short stature that is obese group peraca snake (Python curtus group: P. curtus, P. and P. brongersmai breitensteini) in Sumatra, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.

Two other species are relatively long-bodied, solid muscular: P. molurus (python bodo) and P. reticulatus. Both are spread from Asia to the Great Sunda, including Java. P. molurus has a different developmental pattern of reticulatus, especially with the large V pattern in dark over his head. Sanca flowers have a pattern of circles shaped nets (reticula, nets), composed of the colors black, brown, yellow and white along the dorsal side of his body. A thin black line running over the head from nose to nape, resembling the center line that divides the two sides of the head symmetrically. And each one other black lines that are thicker on each side of the head, through the eyes back.

The scales of the dorsal (back) are arranged in rows 70-80; scales ventral (stomach) as much as 297-332 pieces, from below the neck to the anus; subkaudal scales (the bottom side of the tail) 75-102 pairs. Rostral shield (scales on the tip of the snout) and four shields supralabial (scales on the upper lip) leading edge has a groove hole smell heat (heat sensor pits) are in (Tweedie 1983).