Eunectes notaeus Cope, 1862

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 9

Eunectes notaeus Cope, 1862

Type locality. “South America.” Restricted to 50 km south of Forte Coimbra, on the Paraguay River, near the border between Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay ( Dirksen, 2002) .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay ( Plt. 49A ) along the Paraguay River depression. In Brazil, recorded in the Pantanal, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, and Pampas Grasslands ( Plt. 49A ), at low elevations ( Plt. 49B ). Observed in the field in wet and riparian habitats including rivers, swamps, flooded grassland, lakes, and lagoons (Waller, 1988; Strüssmann and Sazima, 1993; Giraudo and Scrocchi, 2002; Sousa et al., 2010).

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Plate 49. Distribution map of Eunectes notaeus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.