Green anaconda coiled on a tree branch

Reptilia · Squamata

Green Anaconda

Eunectes murinus

The world's heaviest snake, an aquatic constrictor that can exceed 200 kg, with eyes and nostrils set on top of its head so it can lie almost fully submerged while ambushing prey at the surface.

Realm
Freshwater
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern
Data provenance

This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.

Method and version
Evidence snapshot

A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 312 licence-filtered records across 107 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.

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