Dark-Spotted Anaconda | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Boidae |
Subfamily: | Boinae |
Genus: | Eunectes |
Species: | E. deschauenseei |
Binomial name | |
Eunectes deschauenseei Dunn & Conant, 1936 |
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Eunectes deschauenseei is a non-venomous boa species found in northeastern South America. No subspecies are currently recognized.[4]
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Found in South America in northeastern Brazil, Guyana and coastal French Guiana. The type locality given is "probably collected on the island of Marajo at the mouth of the Amazon."[1]
Commonly known as the “dark-spotted anaconda”. When this snake was first found, it was given to the Philadelphia Zoo. The Dark-Spotted Anaconda is found in Guyana and certain parts of Brazil, there have been 102 of these found on record. Mating probably takes place at the end of the dry season, around June–August. They can have between 3–26 neonates in a litter, with sizes ranging between 32–60 cm.