Diamond
The Diamond Python (Morelia spilota spilota) is the southernmost subspecies of the Morelia spilota complex, native to the Sydney basin and surrounding regions of New South Wales, Australia. It is the only Morelia spilota subspecies adapted to genuinely temperate climates, experiencing regular winter temperatures below 10 °C in its natural range.
Diamond Pythons are characterized by a jet-black ground color overlaid with clusters of cream to bright yellow scales forming rosette-like spots – the "diamonds" that give the subspecies its common name. This striking light-on-dark arrangement is the inverse of most other M. spilota subspecies. Individual variation is considerable: some animals display dense, tightly packed rosettes, others show a more reduced, scattered pattern.
This is a wild-type Diamond Python with no morph mutations.
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