About Python brongersmai Stull, 1938
Python brongersmai is a nonvenomous snake species in the Pythonidae family, native to Southeast Asia. It was long treated as a subspecies of Python curtus, and was recognized as a distinct separate species around 2000. The known geographic range of P. brongersmai includes peninsular (Western) Malaysia, Sumatra east of the island’s central dividing mountain range, Bangka Island, and other islands in the Strait of Malacca: the Lingga Islands, Riau islands, and Pinang, as well as Thailand and Vietnam. The preferred natural habitat of this species is marshes and tropical swamps within forest, occurring at altitudes from sea level up to 650 m (2,130 ft). P. brongersmai is oviparous, and can lay up to 30 eggs in a single clutch. After laying, the female coils around her eggs and shivers her body to produce heat, which properly incubates the eggs.
