Talk:Central African rock python/Archive 1

Archive 1

"Endangered" in Africa, "nuisance" in North America

While the rock python has an "endangered" status in Africa, it is considered a major nuisance in Florida (along with the Burmese python, the ball python, the Nile monitor, and the green iguana) as a result of having established colonies. 147.70.242.54 (talk) 19:33, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Arkive content validation

The armive article which text was taken from was authenticated (28/04/09) by Dr. Luca Luiselli, Senior Researcher in Ecology, Institute Demetra, Rome, Italy. http://www.intecol.net/pages/002_personal.php?id=lucamlu

TCO (reviews needed) 00:23, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Merge with Natal subspecies?

There is a huge overlap and commonality of the two info on the two subspecies. I found Painted turtle covering all four subspecies, in the same situation, to work much better together as one and it is now Featured. Would like to merge the two articles. Also, there was an initial structure of covering both the species as a whole and one of the two subspecies in this article (but even that is violated). Would just clean things up to put all together. We can do redirects from the subspecies names to the species article. They really are very similar and have been studied often as one entity.TCO (reviews needed) 18:39, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1643835265678127?view=permalink&id=1788498164545169

The previous classification was changed in 1999. So this wikipedia page needs an update.

(Previously) Northern African Rock Python P.sebae sebae Southern African Rock Python P.sebae natalensis

(After 1999) as classified by cites African Rock Python Python sebae

Southern African Python aka Natal Python Python natalensis

Natalensis is lifted to its own species.

You can contact also rangers@africanwildlifedefenceforce.com for extra verification AWDF 09:47, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

commonest common name?

Is Natal rock python more common or Southern African rock python?

Google shows "Southern African rock python" three times more than "Natal rock python". We'll mention both, but I want to use SARP as most common. Also SARP was how was used in our ARkive donation, which is majority of text now.TCO (reviews needed) 18:45, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Most of the sources I've seen use Southern African rock python. Aurous One (talk) 22:50, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1643835265678127?view=permalink&id=1788498164545169

The previous classification was changed in 1999. So this wikipedia page needs an update.

(Previously) Northern African Rock Python P.sebae sebae Southern African Rock Python P.sebae natalensis

(After 1999) as classified by cites African Rock Python Python sebae

Southern African Python aka Natal Python Python natalensis

Natalensis is lifted to its own species.

You can contact also rangers@africanwildlifedefenceforce.com for extra verification AWDF 09:46, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

26JUL status

Done integrating ARKive content. Up to a B now. Added more text. Cut some old unreffed text. Added a bunch of pics (from us). Merge/deleted the other subspecies (only 1.5 sentences came over). To take it any further would require researching actual references. Think it's better article now than before though.TCO (reviews needed) 23:59, 26 July 2011 (UTC)