Indian python or Burmesse python the same snake?

[sapphire_moon]

Ok, I go to another site, and someone is asking on whether or not their snake is an indian python or a burmese python.
someone else posted that they were the same thing, just a differnet name....

so is this person right? Is a burmese and an indian the same snake? or are they completely different?

Pics and links might be helpful in convincing this person as well.

Thanks for the help!

[honduranfreekk]

I dont know if this will help ya any but here it is ;)

Classification & Range
The Indian python (Python molurus molurus) belongs to the family of snakes, Boidae, which contains the world’s largest snake species including pythons, boas and anacondas. The family Boidae is further divided into several subfamilies; pythons belong to the subfamily Pythoninae.

The Indian python is one of two subspecies, the other being the Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus). Both subspecies are commonly referred to as the Asian rock python (Python molurus). The lighter colored Indian python is native to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The darker colored Burmese python ranges from Myanmar, eastward through southern Asia to southeastern China and Indonesia, excluding the island of Sumatra.

Kelvin@Brigitte

[sapphire_moon]

so they both have diff scientific names, that should prove that it isn't the same snake, right?

[honduranfreekk]

In my understanding sapphire you are corect UNLES things have changed in the last 15 years lol it has been about that long since I have kept them ;)

Now somebody corect me if Im wrong here but I dont think so??

Kelvin@Brigitte

[Jeff_Favelle]

Same SPECIES, different SUBSPECIES.

IE. one is a GEOGRAPHICAL variety or race of the other or of a mother population. Everything that isn't interbreeding WITHIN the population is undergoing SPECIATION. The subspecies of the Python molurus have undergone enough speciation to garner them subspecific status. In 100,000 years (random figure), they may be TOTALLY separate species.

Speciation is DYNAMIC and EVER-OCURRING.

[sapphire_moon]

that was confusing, but I think I got it (I think, not sure ;) . Thanks :)

[kevyn]

The Burmese Python (Python molurus bivittatus) has a sub-orbital scale that the Indian Python (Python molurus molurus) lacks. This is the only accurate way to distinguish between the two. Thus classifying the Burmese Python into a sub-species.

[sapphire_moon]

ah, thanks! Put into regular people talk, lol. I got it now.
:D

[JimmyDavid]

In fact, if you have experience with both you can tell them apart just by looking at them.
Keep in mind that behind the fancy scientific names and all that, they are just the same species. Only live in different regions and therefore developed a few traits of their own. Just like the african man developed a darker skin (or should i say the white man developed white skin, since Africans were here first ??).
Anyway, even Python sebae should be
a subspecies of the indian, for that matter, since they are almost the same snake and originated (for sure) from the same species.