My newest pic is of the Famous Australian Black Headed Python (Aspidites Melanocephalus) my namesake. One of the most sought after and hardest to breed species within Herpetoculture. Often selling for $4,000 or more for a neonate (baby) pair of Eastern Blackheads to $10,000 pair for neonate Western Blackheads they are very sporadic and often infertile breeders. Adults can attain up to 12ft. in length and are very fast and agile animals with an extremely large appetite. Pythons are differentiated from their close relatives (Boas) within the family Boidae by being egg layers (Boas are live bearing) and generally thermoreptive pits (although neither member of the genus Aspidites has them). Boidae are also differentiated from Colubridae (common snakes) by having a vestigial pelvic girdle.
This pic is actually the only other member of the Genus Aspidites the Woma Python (Aspidites Ramsayi). This is a hatchling that has just pipped the shell and is experiencing the world for the first time, simply adorable! If you look close you can see the egg tooth that will fall off within hours.
This is the same neonate that was ictured in the just pipped egg, hours after emerging from the shell.
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