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Royal Python (Python regius) was first described in 1802 by George Shaw under the scientific name Boa regia based on a specimen with pale spotting collected from an unspecified region in Africa. In 1803, François Marie Daudin proposed the genus name Python for nonvenomous spotted snakes and included this species within it. Although biologists such as Wagler and Gray in the mid-19th century suggested alternative genus names such as Enygrus and Cenchris, the taxonomic validity of Python regius has