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Liasis
	Liasis mackloti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Pythonidae
Subfamily:	Pythoninae
Genus:	Liasis; Gray, 1842
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Liasis Gray, 1840; Liasis Gray, 1842; Simalia Gray, 1849; Lisalia Gray, 1849;

Liasis is a genus of pythons found in Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. Currently, three extant species are recognized^[2] and one giant fossil species L. dubudingala, estimated to have been around 10 m (33 ft) in length.^[3]

Geographic range

They are found in the Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands, east through New Guinea and in northern and western Australia.^[1]

Species^[2]	Taxon author^[2]	Subsp.*^[2]	Common name	Geographic range^[1]
L. fuscus	W. Peters, 1873	0	Water python	Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland), the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, Cornwallis Island in the Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea (lower Fly River region) and Indonesia (southern Papua)
L. mackloti^T	A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1844	2	Macklot's python	Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Roti, Samao, Timor, Wetar and Savu
L. olivaceus	Gray, 1842	1	Olive python	Australia in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland

)*Not including the nominate subspecies
)^TType species^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Liasis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 10 September 2007.
^ Scanlon, J.D.; Mackness, B.S. (2001). "A new giant python from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northeastern Queensland". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 25 (4): 425. doi:10.1080/03115510108619232. S2CID 85185368.