Editing Anaconda (section)

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{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Miocene–recent<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hsiou |first1=Annie S. |last2=Albino |first2=Adriana M. |date=1 December 2009 |title=Presence of the genus ''Eunectes'' (Serpentes, Boidae) in the Neogene of Southwestern Amazonia, Brazil |journal=Journal of Herpetology |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=612–619 |doi=10.1670/08-295.1|s2cid=55097666 }}</ref>
| image = Eunectes murinus2.jpg
| image_caption = Green anaconda (''[[Green anaconda|E.&nbsp;murinus]]'')
| taxon = Eunectes
| authority = [[Johann Georg Wagler|Wagler]], 1830<ref name="McD99">{{cite book|last1=McDiarmid|first1=R. W.|last2=Campbell|first2=J. A.|author-link2=Jonathan A. Campbell|last3=Toure|first3=T.|year=1999|title=Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference|volume=1|location=Washington, District of Columbia|publisher=Herpetologists' League|isbn=1-893777-01-4}}</ref>
| type_species = ''[[Eunectes murinus|Boa murina]]''
| type_species_authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])<ref name="McD99"/>
| range_map = Anaconda Range.jpg
| range_map_caption = Range of ''Eunectes''
| synonyms = 
*''Draco'' [[Lorenz Oken|Oken]], 1816
}}

'''Anacondas''' or '''water boas''' are a group of large [[Boinae|boa]]s of the [[genus]] '''''Eunectes'''''. They are a semiaquatic group of [[snake]]s found in tropical [[South America]]. Three to five extant and one extinct [[species]] are currently recognized, including one of the largest snakes in the world, ''E. murinus'', the [[green anaconda]].<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=209577 |taxon=''Eunectes'' |access-date=18 July 2008}}</ref><ref name="NRDB">{{NRDB species|genus=Eunectes|species=beniensis|date=12 December|year=2008}}</ref><ref name=rivas>{{cite journal |last1=Rivas |first1=Jesús |last2=De La Quintana |first2=Paola |last3=Mancuso |first3=Marco |last4=Pacheco |first4=Luis |last5=Rivas |first5=Gilson |last6=Mariotto |first6=Sandra |last7=Salazar-Valenzuela |first7=David |last8=Tepeña Baihua |first8=Marcelo |last9=Baihua |first9=Penti | last10=Burghardt |first10=Gordon |last11=Vonk |first11=Freek |last12=Hernandez |first12=Emil |last13=García-Pérez |first13=Juán Elías |last14=Fry |first14=Bryan |last15=Corey-Rivas |first15=Sarah |date=16 February 2024 |title=Disentangling the Anacondas: Revealing a New Green Species and Rethinking Yellows |journal=Diversity |volume=16(2) |issue=127 |page=127 |doi=10.3390/d16020127 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2024Diver..16..127R }}</ref>