Green anaconda

(Reguidit frae Eunectes murinus)
Green anaconda
Conservation status
Nae Evaluatit
Scientific classification
Kinrick:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Subphylum:Vertebrata
Cless:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Faimily:Boidae
Subfaimily:Boinae
Genus:Eunectes
Species:E. murinus
Binomial name
Eunectes murinus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms [1]
  • [Boa] murina Linnaeus, 1758
  • [Boa] Scytale Linnaeus, 1758
  • Boa gigas Latreille, 1802
  • Boa anacondo Daudin, 1803
  • Boa aquatica Wied-Neuwied, 1824
  • Eunectes murinus – Wagler, 1830
  • Eunectes murina – Gray, 1831
  • Eunectes murinus – Boulenger, 1893
  • Eunectes scytale – Stull, 1935
  • [Eunectes murinus] murinus
    – Dunn & Conant, 1936
  • Eunectes barbouri
    Dunn & Conant, 1936
  • Eunectes murinus murinus
    – Dunn, 1944

The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), kent as the common anaconda an watter boa an aw, is a non-venomous boa species foond in Sooth Americae. It is the hiviest an ane o the langest kent extant snake species. The term anaconda eften refers tae this species, tho the term could apply tae ither members o the genus Eunectes an aw.

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