English: A Anaconda Eunectes murinus from Venezuela
Deutsch: Eine Anaconda Schlange aus Venezuela / Süd Amerika
Date 6 September 2010
Author JanRehschuh https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JanRehschuh
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snake_Anaconda_Schlange_South_America_P1130959.JPG

The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), also known as the common anaconda and water boa, is a non-venomous boa species found in South America. It is the heaviest and one of the longest known extant snake species. The term anaconda often refers to this species, though the term could also apply to other members of the genus Eunectes. The green anaconda's scientific name is derived from the Greek εὐνήκτης, meaning "good swimmer", and the Latin murinus, meaning "of mice", for being thought to prey on mice.
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Genus: Eunectes
Species: Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms:
[Boa] murina Linnaeus, 1758
[Boa] Scytale Linnaeus, 1758
Boa gigas Latreille, 1802
Boa anacondo Daudin, 1803
Boa aquatica Wied-Neuwied, 1824
Eunectes murinus – Wagler, 1830
Eunectes murina – Gray, 1831
Eunectes murinus – Boulenger, 1893
Eunectes scytale – Stull, 1935
[Eunectes murinus] murinus – Dunn & Conant, 1936
Eunectes barbouri Dunn & Conant, 1936
Eunectes murinus murinus – Dunn, 1944