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Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)🐍

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SpeciesBoidae
Reptiles

🐍Green anaconda

Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

الأناكوندا الخضراء أو أناكُنْدَة أو أنكونة (الاسم العلمي: Eunectes murinus) هي نوعٌ من أنواع الأناكوندا الموجودة في أمريكا الجنوبية؛ حيثُ تُعدّ واحدةً من أثقل وأطول أنواع الثعابين الموجودة على سطحِ الكرة الأرضيّة. يُشير مصطلح «أناكوندا» غالبًا إلى هذا النوع؛ على الرغم من أن المصطلح يُمكن أن يُشير أيضًا إلى الأنواع الأخرى من جنس الأناكوندا.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
98 kg
Body length
2.43 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
32 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Green anaconda

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
98 kgrecord 345 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
2.43 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
32 yearsrecord 32 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Activity cycle
Cathemeral
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
AMB
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
2.09 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
98 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Green anaconda yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyBoidae
  5. ›genusEunectes
  6. ›speciesEunectes murinus
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  4. genusEunectes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
  12. genusEunectes
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In other languages
große Anakonda (de), anakonda zielona (pl), אנקונדה כהה (he), Eunectes murinus (fr), Eunectes murinus (es), zöld anakonda (hu) … and 26 more languages
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