Reynolds and colleagues subsequently described the genus "Malayopython" for this species and its sister species, the Timor python, calling the Timor python "M. timoriensis". Hoser has since said that the "Malayopython" name is a junior synonym of "Broghammerus", thus it should not be recognized by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Neither of these proposed reclassifications has been recognized by the ITIS, but "Malayopython" has been recognized by a number of subsequent authors and the Reptile Database. Three subspecies have been proposed:  The latter two are dwarf subspecies. Apparently, the population of the Sangihe Islands north of Sulawesi represents another such subspecies, which is basal to the "P. r. reticulatus" plus "P. r. jampeanus" clade, but it is not yet formally described. The proposed subspecies "M. r. "dalegibbonsi"", "M. r. "euanedwardsi"", "M. r. "haydnmacphiei"", "M. r. "neilsonnemani"", "M. r. "patrickcouperi"", and "M. r. "stuartbigmorei"" have not found general acceptance. The reticulated python has smooth dorsal scales that are arranged in 69–79 rows at midbody. Deep pits occur on four anterior upper labials, on two or three anterior lower labials, and on five or six posterior lower labials. The reticulated python is the largest snake native to Asia. More than a thousand wild reticulated pythons in southern Sumatra were studied and estimated to have a length range of and a weight range of . Reticulated pythons with lengths more than are rare, though according to the "Guinness Book of World Records", it is the only extant snake to regularly exceed that length. One of the largest scientifically measured specimens, from Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, was measured under anesthesia at and weighed after not having eaten for nearly 3 months. The specimen once widely accepted as the largest-ever "accurately" measured snake, that being Colossus, a specimen kept at the Highland Park Zoo (now the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s and early 1960s, with a peak reported length of from a measurement in November 1956, was later shown to have been substantially shorter than previously reported.