sentences:  The specific name, "reticulatus", is Latin meaning "net-like", or , and is a reference to the complex color pattern.The generic name "Python" was proposed by French naturalist François Marie Daudin in 1803.American zoologist Arnold G. Kluge performed a cladistics analysis on morphological characters and recovered the reticulated python lineage as sister to the genus "Python", hence not requiring a new generic name in 1993.