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Eunectes murinus
Anaconda An`a*con"da, n. [Of Ceylonese origin?] (Zo["o]l.) A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

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- Anacondas or water boas are a group of large boas of the genus Eunectes. They are a semiaquatic group of snakes found in tropical South America. Five extant...
- genus Eunectes for Linnaeus's Boa murina after more and larger specimens were known and described. Because of the masculine gender of Eunectes, the feminine...
- (Eunectes akayima) is a disputed boa species found in northern South America and the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is closely related to Eunectes murinus...
- form of νωτιαίος/nōtiaios). In distinguishing his new species Eunectes notaeus from Eunectes murinus, Edward Drinker Cope stated, "Dorsal scales are larger...
- information and the similarity in appearance to Eunectes notaeus. It is closely related to Eunectes notaeus and Eunectes deschauenseei. The Bolivian anaconda's...
- Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eunectes deschauenseei. Dirksen, Lutz; Henderson, Robert W. (2002). Eunectes deschauenseei. Catalogue of American...
- The validity of this species has been called into question. Eunectes beniensis Eunectes deschauenseei Green anaconda Yellow anaconda Hoffstetter, R.;...
- Colthorpe, Kelly (2009). "Eunectes notaeus". Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved 2016-02-03. Murphy, John C. "Yellow Anaconda, Eunectes notaeus (Cope)". Giant...
- but larger food items are not unknown: the diet of the green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) is known to include subadult tapirs. Prey is swallowed whole,...
- Epicrates maurus, brown rainbow boa Eunectes, anacondas Eunectes beniensis, Bolivian anaconda or Beni anaconda Eunectes deschauenseei, dark-spotted anaconda...