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Animals of the Amazon Rainforest: The Anaconda The largest-known snake in the world is the Anaconda, or Eunectes murinus, of South America. It holds the world's official record for size of snakes, encountered by petroleum geologist in eastern Columbia in the 1940's, measuring 37 1/2 feet in length. The anaconda can live in fresh water and could be a eat some smaller sea serpent, or lake monster reports. Like all snakes, the anaconda is carnivorous. While some snakes use poison to kill o ...

Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) The anaconda's kingdom is animalia. Its phylum is chordata. Its class is reptila. Its order is squamata. Its family is boidae. Water boa is another name for the anaconda. The Green Anaconda is dark green in color with black oval patches on its back. Its sides have similar spots with yellow centers. Because of its coloring it blends in well with the wet, dense plants that grow around where it lives. Each anaconda has its own distinct pattern. No other an ...

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Anaconda. The largest snakes are found in the boa family, and the largest of these is the anaconda or water boa. Anaikolra, the Tamil word for anaconda, means "elephant killer". The anaconda lives throughout tropical South America, east of the Andes, mainly in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, and in the Guianas. It extends to Trinidad. The species is variable in color and size giving rise to sub-specific names. Black patches on the anaconda's back combine with dull background color to blend ...

Biggest Snake ANACONDA Eunectes murinus Location: In rivers that feed into the Amazon River in South America. Facts: The largest anaconda ever measured was almost 28 feet long with a girth of 44 inches. She wasn't weighed at the time she was caught, but scientists estimate that she must have weighed over 500 lbs. The Scientists Who Study this Cool Stuff? Biologists, Herpetologists, Zoologists. Meet one here on Extreme Science; Dr. Jesus Rivas... Links: Nashville Zoo Dr. Riv ...

Animals of the RRRS - SNAKES Burmese Python Reticulated Python Rough Green Snake Yellow Anaconda YELLOW ANACONDA (Eunectes notaeus) This anaconda can be found from northern Argentina, Paraguay, south-eastern Bolivia and Brazil. Unlike his cousin the Green Anaconda, which can reach over 27 feet (8.1 meters) in length, and have a girth of 44 inches (111.7 cm), the Yellow Anaconda averages 10 - 12 feet (3.3 - 3.6 meters) in length. The habitat of these animals are swamps, mars ...

Green Anaconda Eunectes murinus Anacondas are related to boa constrictors and pythons. None is venomous. They are constrictors; they suffocate their prey by coiling around it and squeezing. With a rumoured maximum weight of about 200 kg (441 lb.), the green anaconda is the most massive of the giant snakes. The body is dark green in colour (hence the name green anaconda) with large black dorsal spots and small lateral spots with lighter yellow centres. Adults can grow to mo ...