Simalia is a genus of snakes in the family Pythonidae.

[1] Simalia Gray, 1849, was considered a taxonomic synonym of but Reynolds et al. (2014)[2] resurrected the genus for the Morelia amethistina species group (which, together with Morelia viridis, had made the genus Morelia paraphyletic).

The genus Simalia contains the following species:[1] As of June 2022, ITIS and the IUCN Red List also identify the Oenpelli python as Simalia oenpelliensis, while The Reptile Database places it in the monotypic genus Nyctophilopython.

[3][4][5] Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Simalia.