#1668 · 🦎 reptiles
Carpet Python
🇳🇱 Ruitpython ·Morelia spilota
📍 Unincorp. Flinders Ranges, AU-SA, AU
📍 Point Lookout QLD 4183, Australia
📍 Mutawintji NSW 2880, Australia
📍 Mount Keira, NSW
📍 Onkaparinga River National Park, Onkaparinga Hills, SA, AU
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Faunaverse · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Matthew Connors · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Alex Butler · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Bryce van der Heide · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Faunaverse · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Unincorp. Flinders Ranges, AU-SA, AU:© Astrid R Keen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Point Lookout QLD 4183, Australia:© Dubravka Skalamera · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Mutawintji NSW 2880, Australia:© Ruth Palsson · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. Mount Keira, NSW:© dhfischer · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Onkaparinga River National Park, Onkaparinga Hills, SA, AU:© Juju Haifa · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Morelia spilota , commonly referred to as carpet python and diamond pythons , is a large snake of the family Pythonidae found in Australia, New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea), Bismarck Archipelago, and the northern Solomon Islands. There are many subspecies; ITIS lists six, the Reptile Database seven, and the IUCN eight.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 13,098 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1804 (222 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Carpet Python
- Nederlands
- Ruitpython
- scientific name
- Morelia spilota
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Pythonidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 13,098
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1804 by Bernard Germain de Lacépède
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Pythonidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 50238, Wikidata Q575770, GBIF 5225659, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.