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The Green Anaconda or Yakumama

By: Jaziel White and Alexander Obregon Huamán Mera.

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Chordata

Subphylum Vertebrata

Clase Reptilia Laurenti, 1768

Orden Squamata Oppel, 1811

Suborden Serpentes Linnaeus, 1758

Infraorder Alethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923

Famila Boidae Gray, 1825

Subfamilia Boinae Gray, 1825

Genero Eunectes Wagler, 1830

Especie Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Nombre común: anaconda o Yacumama

Para identificar the anaconda ( Eunectes murinus) must comply with the following characteristics: 239-269 ventral scales, 53-81 scales dorsal scales between the eye and suborbital supralabials, 4 black stripes on the head. Oval black spots or ocelli dorsal lateral black spots with yellow center.

The color basically consists of grayish brown or olive above, with one or two series of black spots on the back and one or two series of spots or ocelli with light centers, side. Whitish below with dark spots. The dark side up, with a postocular band longitudinal orange or yellow, bordered by two black lines.

These boids unlike pythons are ovoviviparous. These animals are constrictors, kill by strangulation. Anacondas can live eating only once a year. The females mate with several males who come from afar, into a ball, then this can be mated for life. (Can add, not always the case).

Of the genera of boas, Eunectes has four species, E. murinus, a species of which we speak, E. notaeus, E. beniensis and E. deschauenseei. Like all predators snake, used to feed under water, their prey are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and small to medium sized mammals.

predators are changing. Females are much larger than males as in most reptiles and snakes, the female may be 3 feet larger than the male, the largest difference in size within the tetrapods.

can gobble up to 80% of its own weight in one bite. At birth they know avail themselves, and can kill their prey. They can live up to 6 months of the yolk sac, the green anaconda is also the world's heaviest snake, there have been cases of reticulated pythons (Python reticulatus ) longer but the anaconda is much heavier.

It is said that the name comes from Tamil Anaikolra, "kill elephants." Tamil is a Dravidian language (non-Indo-European) in South India, with numerous pins. The English called it "bull kills" and "kill horse."

is, near the above reticulated python (Python reticulatus ), the largest snake in the world. Green Anacondas ( Eunectes murinus) live in the jungle rivers of South America, mainly in stagnant waters and wetlands are vulnerable due to habitat destruction and hunting. As a curious, often animal skins are much larger As mentioned in tourist attractions and animal stories of 15 meters or more are not rare, but may extend skin, so a 5-meter animal can easily be seem by the skin stretch was 10.

can weigh more than two hundred fifty pounds and live in an environment with high humidity. The temperature of their habitat is about 25 ° C.

As mentioned earlier, the anacondas eat all kinds of animals in their environment, not escaping alligators or tapirs or if the animal is large enough.

Your sexual cycle is annual, meaning they can reproduce once a year. After a courtship that can take place both in water and on land, copulation takes place, lasting approximately 9 hours. For 4 or 5 months of gestation the young are born alive, they are ovoviviparous, the color similar to that of their parents and a length between 40 and 78 cm.

Thanks to Alberto Samaniego Krauss

In memory of Dr. Omar Pesantes Segura.

Thanks to Dr. Wolfgang Wüster Bangor University, Wales.