Eunectes stirtoni | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Boidae |
Genus: | Eunectes |
Species: | E. stirtoni
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Binomial name | |
Eunectes stirtoni
Hoffstetter & Rage 1977
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Eunectes stirtoni is an extinct species of anaconda that lived during the Middle Miocene ( Laventan) in the area of the present-day Tatacoa Desert. Fossils of the species have been found in the Honda Group at La Venta, Colombia. The validity of this species has been called into question. [2]