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The green anaconda is the world's heaviest and one of the world's longest snakes, reaching a length of up to 5.21 m (17 ft 1 in) long. [11] More typical mature specimens reportedly can range up to 5 m (16 ft 5 in), with adult females, with a mean length of about 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in), being generally much larger than the males, which average ...
Range map 1 Green anaconda (a.k.a. Southern green anaconda) Eunectes murinus: Boidae: May exceed 227 kg (500 lb), [10] measurement validity questionable 97.5 kg (215 lb), reliable, maximum among 780 specimens caught over a seven-year period 1992–98 [11] Average 30.8 kg (68 lb) among 45 specimens (1992–98) [11]
Bolivian anaconda South America in the Departments of Beni and Pando in Bolivia: E. deschauenseei (=E. notaeus?) Dunn and Conant, 1936 [3] Dark-spotted anaconda South America in northern Brazil and coastal French Guiana [2] E. murinus (Linnaeus, 1758) [3] Green anaconda Peru, Bolivia, French Guiana, Suriname and Brazil [18] E. notaeus: Cope ...
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 ...
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.
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Range of sampled Eunectes akayima (in light green) and Eunectes murinus (in dark green) individuals. Eunectes akayima is found in northern South America. The precise distribution area is not yet known, but based on samples taken, the species is known to occur in Venezuela, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Ecuador, and the island of Trinidad.
• 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 ]