anaconda: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	sucuri • Eunectes

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Southern green anaconda (Eunectes murinus)

Yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus) with distinctive yellow and black patterned scales, lying on green vegetation.

yellow anaconda (Eunectes notaeus)

Anaconda and Titanoboa vertebrae

Illustration of a green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), a large, thick-bodied snake with olive-green skin and dark oval spots, shown coiled with its tongue extended.

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