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Amazon Basin of Bolivia, Water Hyacinth swamp, 1 foot deep. Anaconda was somewhere around 9 or 10 feet I believe. I didn't have a tape measure or a pillow case with me.

I don't collect big snakes. I don't know the different species of anaconda, I've heard of yellow anaconda, green anaconda.

Just curious

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ETChipotle

i would say that is a green anaconda. but the belly pattern looks different then a lot of the green i see. do u have any other pictures of it.

CrazyCody

the only types of anaconda that could be is Eunectes murinus murinus (most common green anaconda but if you found that in bolivia you have a better chance of it being something else), Eunectes murinus gigas (very likely that is what you have), or Eunectes beniensis (I have never seen a picture of one but it is a bolivian species and the one you are holding seems to have less yellow pattern on the sides so maybe thats what you have) Eunectes beniensis is the only species i have never seen a picture of so it would be amazing if thats what you have. I am very curious to see what dfrm kelly haller, or redhed (her and her husband have produced the best studies on anacondas I have seen) have to say on that. I would like to hear more about this though, please keep posting.

The focus on the previous picture was done by a third world guide. I did this one.

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ETChipotle

It is showing the larger, irregular shaped lateral spots with no yellow centers. Along with a darker overall coloration. Looks like beniensis to me. Did you see any other specimens?

Kelly

I'm talking about the snake...

This was the only snake I saw. I did see one legless lizard that a small road crew dug up. It was about the size of a night crawler, but longer.

I let everyone else hold the snake first, while it emptied itself on the other tourists.

The guides had to actually ask me to hold it, I was more interested in photographs than being crapped on by a huge snake.

After we all got full of snake crap, we went swimming in the caiman infested river, in a place where the river dolphins would protect us from the crocodilians.

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ETChipotle

No yellow interiors like what I see in some pictures you've posted just below in the "yum yum" postings.
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ETChipotle

Eunectes beniensis was my guess but having never seen a picture I could not say for sure. Thank you Kelly for your post to help confirm my guess. That is great since I have never seen a photo of one before. Cool post.

I did a google search on "Eunectes beniensis" and found a german site that labeled it "Beni Anaconda." Well the picture was taken in the Beni department of Bolivia, near the Yacuma river that flows into the Beni river.

I was amazed at how docile the snake was. It did hiss a bit when I took the close-up of his face. Maybe it has a strong brand loyalty to Canon, and didn't like having a Nikon pointed at it.

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ETChipotle

Great pics. Most everythings already been said about the id of the conda. I just wanted to say thanks for posting them.
Arik

I don't know why I didn't try to identify it earlier, I took this picture two years ago!
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ETChipotle