Simalia

Simalia Gray, 1849, was a taxonomic synonym of

• Liasis (a genus of non-venomous pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia) and
• Morelia (a genus of large snakes, in the family Pythonidae, found in Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea),

but Reynolds et al. (2014)[1] resurrected the genus for the Morelia amethistina species group (which, together with Morelia viridis had made genus Morelia paraphyletic).

The genus Simalia contains the following species:

Image	Species	Distribution
	S. amethistina (Schneider, 1801) (type species)	Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.
	S. boeleni (Brongersma, 1953)	New Guinea
	S. clastolepis (Harvey et al., 2000)	Indonesia.
	S. kinghorni (Stull, 1933)	northern Australia.
	S. nauta (Harvey et al., 2000)	Indonesia.
	S. tracyae (Harvey et al., 2000)	Indonesian island of Halmahera.

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Simalia.

• Gray JE (1849). Catalogue of the Specimens of Snakes in the Collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Edward Newman, printer). xv + 125 pp. (Simalia, new genus, p. 91).