Diamond python

[Adam Spence <>]

Diamond and carpet are two names for the same species.

They are a species that occur here, recently sighted on Mt Majura if I recall, but like many of the 11 or so species occurring in the ACT, a rarity. 

Do they microchip Pythons haha? Might be worth checking community pages on Facebook and the like for any list notices.

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 at 2:48 pm Don Fletcher <> wrote:

Believed to be locally extinct.  Mainly the local pythons were carpet
pythons with some diamond according to historic accounts found by Matthew
Higgins.  So this seems likely to be an escapee.


Don Fletcher
0428 48 9990

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From: John Leonard [
Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2017 2:31 PM
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Subject: Diamond python

Someone at work has shown me a photo of a diamond python taken in a backyard
in north lyneham in theist day or so

How common is this, I thought Canberra was too cold for pythons (the
Canberra nature map only mentions one sighting in Canberra)? Is this an
escaped

Should these people call a snake catcher in to catch it before the winter?

John Leonard
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