Eunectes

The largest freshwater turtle in the world (Podocnemys expansa) inhabits the rivers along with black caimans (Caiman crocodylus) and the mighty anacondas (Eunectes murinus).

Solimões-Japurá moist forest 2008

The snakes include the anaconda Eunectes murinus, fer-de-lance Bothrops asper, palm pit-vipers Bothriechis spp., coral snakes Micrurus spp., the bushmaster Lachesis muta and boa constrictor Boa constrictor.

Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

Anaconda ( '' Eunectes murinu ''), near the borders of Peru, Brazil and Columbia (Photograph by Dr. Lloyd Glenn Ingles, California Academy of Sciences & CalPhotos)

Iquitos varzea 2008

Other reptiles that frequent this ecoregion are the green iguana (Iguana iguana), spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) and anaconda (Eunectes murinus).

Guianan mangroves 2008

Large reptiles in the area include black caimans (Melanosuchus niger), spectacled caimans (Caiman crocodilus), and anacondas (Eunectes murinus).

Monte Alegre varzea 2008

Reptiles include the great anacondas (Eunectes murinus), black caimans (Melanosuchus niger) and spectacled caimans (Caiman crocodilus).

Purus varzea 2008

Large reptiles in the area include black caimans (Melanosuchus niger), endangered yellow-headed sideneck turtles (Podocnemis unifilis), and anacondas (Eunectes murinus).

Iquitos varzea 2008

Also, the largest snake in the world, the great anaconda (Eunectes murinus), is found here.

Purus varzea 2008

Where the branches of rivers enter the gloomy forests and form little narrow lagunes, over which the high trees spread in vaulted cupolas almost impervious to the light of day, there dwells the powerful giant snake (_Eunectes murinus_, Wagl.), called by the Indians, in their figurative language, _yacumaman_, "mother of the waters."

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

The anaconda, or water-boa (_Eunectes murinus_ [131]), is larger and more formidable than the boa-constrictor which lives on the land.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853