Also, the largest snake in the world, the great anaconda (Eunectes murinus), is found here. From Wordnik.com. [Purus varzea] Reference
Reptiles include the great anacondas (Eunectes murinus), black caimans (Melanosuchus niger) and spectacled caimans (Caiman crocodilus). From Wordnik.com. [Purus varzea] Reference
Large reptiles in the area include black caimans (Melanosuchus niger), spectacled caimans (Caiman crocodilus), and anacondas (Eunectes murinus). From Wordnik.com. [Monte Alegre varzea] Reference
Other reptiles that frequent this ecoregion are the green iguana (Iguana iguana), spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) and anaconda (Eunectes murinus). From Wordnik.com. [Guianan mangroves] Reference
Anaconda ( '' Eunectes murinu ''), near the borders of Peru, Brazil and Columbia (Photograph by Dr. Lloyd Glenn Ingles, California Academy of Sciences & CalPhotos). From Wordnik.com. [Iquitos varzea] Reference
Large reptiles in the area include black caimans (Melanosuchus niger), endangered yellow-headed sideneck turtles (Podocnemis unifilis), and anacondas (Eunectes murinus). From Wordnik.com. [Iquitos varzea] Reference
The largest freshwater turtle in the world (Podocnemys expansa) inhabits the rivers along with black caimans (Caiman crocodylus) and the mighty anacondas (Eunectes murinus). From Wordnik.com. [Solimões-Japurá moist forest] Reference
A handout photo released by Nature magazine shows a Precloacal vertebra of an adult Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus), lighter coloured vertebra dwarfed by a vertebra of the giant boid snake they named Titanoboa cerrejonensis, meaning "titanic boa from Cerrejon," the region where it was found. From Wordnik.com. [Winnipeg Sun] Reference
The study says Titanoboa was the largest non-marine vertebrate from the epoch following the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and "greatly exceeds the largest verifiable body lengths" of the largest known Python (approximately 29.53 feet) or Eunectes, a species of which the Anaconda is a part, (22.97 feet). From Wordnik.com. [Panama Guide] Reference
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