| Anaconda Temporal range: Miocene–recent[1]
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| Green anaconda (E. murinus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Boidae |
| Subfamily: | Boinae |
| Genus: | Eunectes Wagler, 1830[2] |
| Type species | |
| Boa murina | |
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| Range of Eunectes | |
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Anacondas or water boas are a group of large boas of the genus Eunectes. They are a semiaquatic group of snakes found in tropical South America. Three to five extant and one extinct species are currently recognized, including one of the largest snakes in the world, E. murinus, the green anaconda.[3][4][5]
- ^ Hsiou, Annie S.; Albino, Adriana M. (1 December 2009). "Presence of the genus Eunectes (Serpentes, Boidae) in the Neogene of Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil". Journal of Herpetology. 43 (4): 612–619. doi:10.1670/08-295.1. S2CID 55097666.
- ^ a b McDiarmid, R. W.; Campbell, J. A.; Toure, T. (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Vol. 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. ISBN 1-893777-01-4.
- ^ "Eunectes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 July 2008.
- ^ Eunectes beniensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 December 2008.
- ^ Rivas, Jesús; De La Quintana, Paola; Mancuso, Marco; Pacheco, Luis; Rivas, Gilson; Mariotto, Sandra; Salazar-Valenzuela, David; Tepeña Baihua, Marcelo; Baihua, Penti; Burghardt, Gordon; Vonk, Freek; Hernandez, Emil; García-Pérez, Juán Elías; Fry, Bryan; Corey-Rivas, Sarah (16 February 2024). "Disentangling the Anacondas: Revealing a New Green Species and Rethinking Yellows". Diversity. 16(2) (127): 127. doi:10.3390/d16020127.