Steve W. Gotte Jeremy F. Jacobs George R. Zug 2011 Short-tailed pythons, <i>Python curtus</i> species group, occur predominantly in the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. The discovery of an adult female in Mon State, Myanmar, led to a review of the distribution of all group members (spot-mapping of all localities of confirmed occurrence) and an examination of morphological variation in <i>P. brongersmai</i>. The resulting maps demonstrate a limited occurrence of these pythons within peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo with broad absences in these regions. Our small samples limit the recognition of regional differentiation in the morphology of <i>P. brongersmai</i> populations; however, the presence of unique traits in the Myanmar python and its strong allopatry indicate that it is a unique genetic lineage, and it is described as <i>Python kyaiktiyo</i> new species. application/pdf 10.2988/10-34.1 en Biological Society of Washington Pythons in Burma: Short-tailed python (Reptilia: Squamata) article