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Old 03-03-2020, 11:04 PM   #2
Socratic Monologue
Do you mean Broghammerus? If so, then I don't think so. Only retics and timor pythons were moved there; the rest of Python is monophyletic.

I haven't read it all, but here's the paper that establishes that change:
https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/.../3/603/2701337

Rawlings, Lesley H.; Rabosky, Daniel L.; Donnellan, Stephen C.; Hutchinson, Mark N. 2008. Python phylogenetics: inference from morphology and mitochondrial DNA. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (3): 603-619