Taxonomy &
Species Accounts
 

First description

Peters and Doria first described the White-Lipped Python as Liasis albertisii in 1878. These authors examined material collected by the Italian naturalists Odoardo Beccari and Luigi Maria d’Albertis during an expedition to New Guinea. Two specimens, one from Kapoar (Onin Peninsula, presumably Fak Fak, Indonesia) and one from Andai, near Dorei (Manokwari, Indonesia) were described and designated as syntypes (coll. # MSNG 29989-29990) for this new species.