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New techniques such as automatic landmarking now allow us to examine such structures in detail, and with these methods we quantify the intraspecific variation in the genitalia of Burmese pythons (\n                    <jats:italic>Python bivittatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ). Despite previous assertions that a vaginal pouch is not present in pythons, we find that\n                    <jats:italic>P. bivittatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    have well developed vaginal pouches, that are morphologically diverse, and change shape over ontogeny. Vaginal pouches and hemipenes are isometric. Hemipenes also vary in shape ontogenetically, but we find no evidence of directional asymmetry in shape or size between adult right and left hemipenes suggesting a lack of laterality. We identify a potentially intersex neonate with hemipenes, testes, and a vaginal pouch. 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