The color can be brown, olive, light or dark green, and even black. The various subspecies have different colorations and a greater changing pattern, consisting of white or cream and gold shadings, in a rough diamond-shape, splotches, light and dark bands, stripes or colored rings. It is commonly known as either the diamond python or the carpet python and it has many subspecies. The carpet python (Morelia spilota) is a large non-venomous snake of the family Pythonidae.