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Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)🐍

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SpeciesBoidae
Reptiles

🐍Green anaconda

Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

森蚺（學名：Eunectes murinus）又名南美蟒蛇，是一種體型巨大的無毒蛇，主要棲息於南美洲熱帶雨林、河川、沼澤，為蚺科體型最大的成員，同時是世上最大的蛇之一。

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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
Details ↓

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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