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Boa constrictor may allude to:
Any individual from the sort Eunectes, a gathering of expansive, amphibian snakes found in South America
Eunectes murinus, the green boa constrictor, the biggest species, is discovered east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago.
Eunectes notaeus, the yellow boa constrictor, a little species, is found in eastern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.
Eunectes deschauenseei, the hazily spotted boa constrictor, is an uncommon species found in northeastern Brazil and beach front French Guiana.
Eunectes beniensis, the Bolivian boa constrictor, the most as of late characterized species, is found in the Departments of Beni and Pando in Bolivia.
The goliath boa constrictor is a legendary snake of huge extents said to be found in South America.
The term was beforehand connected loosely, demonstrating any huge snake that "chokes" its prey (see Constriction) was called anaconda, however this utilization is presently archaic.The South American names anacauchoa and anacaona were proposed in a record by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera yet the possibility of a South American starting point was addressed by Henry Walter Bates who, in his goes in South America, neglected to locate any comparative name being used. The word boa constrictor is gotten from the name of a snake from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) that John Ray portrayed in Latin in his Synopsis Methodica Animalium (1693) as serpens indicus bubalinus anacandaia zeylonibus, ides bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens. Ray utilized an index of snakes from the Leyden historical center supplied by Dr. Tancred Robinson, yet the portrayal of its propensity depended on Andreas Cleyer who in 1684 depicted a colossal snake that pulverized substantial creatures by winding and smashing their bones. Henry Yule in his Hobson-Jobson takes note of that the word turned out to be more mainstream because of a bit of fiction distributed in 1768 in the Scots Magazine by a specific R. Edwin. Edwin depicted a tiger being pounded and slaughtered by a boa constrictor when truth be told tigers never happened in Sri Lanka. Yule and Frank Wall noticed that the snake was truth be told a python and recommended a Tamil birthplace anai-kondra meaning elephant killer. A Sinhalese inception was additionally proposed by Donald Ferguson who brought up that the word Henakandaya (hena lightning/expansive and kanda stem/trunk) was utilized as a part of Sri Lanka for the little whip snake (Ahaetulla pulverulenta) and by one means or another got twisted to the python before myths were created.The name ordinarily utilized for the boa constrictor as a part of Brazil is sucuri, sucuriju or sucuriuba.[9]Ray J. 1693. Summary methodica animalium quadrupedum et serpentini generis. Vulgarium natas characteristicas, rariorum descriptiones integras exhibens: cum historiis and observationibus anatomicis perquam curiosis. Præmittuntur nonnulla de animalium in genere, sensu, generatione, divisione, &c. - pp. , 1-336, Londini. (Smith and Walford).
Yule H, Burnell AC. 1886. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical, and Discursive. London: J. Murray. pp. 133–134. (reproduced in 1903 by W. Crooke).
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just to one animal categories specifically, the basic or green boa constrictor, Eunectes murinus, which is the biggest snake on the planet by weight, and the second longest
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