One of the 2 anacondas on WAnimals
Reptiles · Squamata · Boidae
Yellow Anaconda
Eunectes notaeus
Least Concern
The species is abundant and widely distributed; it faces no significant short-term risk.
The yellow anaconda is the smaller relative of the green anaconda: it reaches some four and a half metres and thirty-five kilos. It is yellow with black blotches and lives in the wetlands of central and southern South America, above all in the Pantanal. It hunts from ambush in the water and kills by constriction, and like all boas it is viviparous.
Weight
25 kg – 55 kg
Size
2.5 m – 4.4 m
Life expectancy
20 years
