Wildlife of Anaconda

Anaconda is a large, non-venomous snake found in tropical South America. Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.

Anaconda may refer to:

1. Each member of the genus Eunectes, a group of large water snake found in South America

• Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago.
• Eunectes notaeus, yellow anaconda, a small species, found in the eastern part of Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.
• Eunectes deschauenseei, dark anaconda-see, is a rare species found in northeastern Brazil and the coast of French Guyana.
• Eunectes beniensis, Bolivian anaconda, the species most recently set, which is found in the Department of Beni and Pando in Bolivia.

2. The giant anaconda snake myth is a very large proportion is said to be found in South America.

3. Each large snake that "crushes" its prey (see Constriction), if implemented in a looser, called anaconda.

Various theories exist about the origin of the name itself. The most widely accepted shows that originated from henakandaya Sinhala as phonetic sound very similar. However, this name is used to refer to the red vine snake, Ahaetulla pulverulenta, a species, slender arboreal grow to five feet (152 cm) and most feeds only on small vertebrates.

Another theory by Yule and Burnell (1886) based on the entries in the catalog of the Museum of Leiden Snake India (Ray, 1693), which reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est aliorumque Bubalorum jumentorum conterens membra, which means "anacondaia from Ceylon, which is it that crushes member body buffaloes and yoke beasts. "Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one of the Tamil language instead:". Yang beat elephant "Termite kondra (anaik-Konda), meaning Per National Geographic, anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra , which means elephant killer.

The name was first used in English in 1768 by V. Jonasson in colorful evidence of the large snake found in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), most likely reticulated python, Python reticulatus. Account, which explains how the snake crushes and eating tiger, full of popular misconception, but widely read at the time, giving rise to the myth of Ceylon anaconda.