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2. Eunectes deschauenseei - Wikipedia

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   Eunectes deschauenseei, commonly known as the dark-spotted anaconda [1] [4] or De Schauensee's anaconda, [5] is a species of snake in the subfamily Boinae of the family Boidae. The species is native to northeastern South America. Like all boas, it is a nonvenomous constrictor. No subspecies are currently recognized. [4]

3. Anaconda - Wikipedia

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   The word anaconda is derived from the name of a snake from Ceylon that John Ray described in Latin in his Synopsis Methodica Animalium (1693) as serpens indicus bubalinus anacandaia zeylonibus, ides bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens. [7] Ray used a catalogue of snakes from the Leyden museum supplied by Dr. Tancred Robinson.

4. List of largest snakes - Wikipedia

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   The longest venomous snake is the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), with lengths (recorded in captivity) of up to 5.7 m (19 ft) and a weight of up to 12.7 kg (28 lb). [53] It is also the largest elapid. The second-longest venomous snake in the world is possibly the African black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), which

5. 'Magnificent creatures': New photos show largest anaconda ...

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   A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...

6. Biggest snake species in the world discovered in Amazon ...

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   The new species, described in the journal Diversity, diverged from the previously known southern green anaconda about 10 million years ago, differing genetically from it by 5.5 per cent.

7. File:Biggest snakes comparison chart.svg - Wikipedia

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   • The green anaconda is the largest (most massive) extant snake. The silhouette is scaled to 5.21 metres (17.1 ft) which was the longest measured and published in a study by Jesús Antonio Rivas that measured hundreds of anacondas. [2] There are reports of longer anacondas, but these reports have been questioned. [3] [4] [5]

8. Snakes alive! New Mexico Highlands professors discover new ...

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   Feb. 21—Why study anacondas? For Jesús Rivas, who chairs the biology department at New Mexico Highlands University and has been observing the massive snakes for more than 30 years, the answer ...

9. New species of Amazon anaconda, world's largest snake ... - AOL

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   A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen.