False Water Cobra
Hydrodynastes gigas (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
Also calledBoipevaçu (por) · Brasilianische Glattnatter (deu) · Cobra-D'água (por) · Hydrodynaste géant (fra) · Hydrodynaste géant (L') (fra) · Jararacuçu-Piau (por) · Pepeva (por) · Stor Kobrasnog (dan) · Sucuri (por) · Sucurirana (por) · Surucucu-do-Brejo (por) · Surucucu-do-Pantanal (por) · Surucucu-traíra (por) · Surucucurana (por)
First described in: Duméril, A.M.C., G. Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril. Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 7 (partie 1).
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distribution
Two mutilated individuals (Fig. 15) were photographed at Compañía Isla Perú, Iturbe (26 ° 03 ’ 32 ’’ S 56 ° 33 ’ 02 ’’ W), Guairá department on 18 November 2022 by Emily Gallardo, representing the first departmental record. This is a common and familiar wetland species in Paraguay, previously reported from Alto Paraguay, Caaguazú, Central, Concpeción, Cordillera, Itapúa, Misiones, Ñeembucú, Paraguarí, Presidente Hayes and San Pedro departments in Paraguay (Cabral and Weiler, 2014; Cacciali et al., 2016 b; Smith et al., 2016, 2024; Zárate et al., 2019). It is considered to be “ Least Concern ” in Paraguay (Martínez et al., 2020 c).
Twenty-eight new and significant departmental reptile records for Paraguay
distribution
Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay (Plt. 274 A). In Brazil, recorded in the Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal, Chiquitano Dry Forest and Amazonia (Plt. 274 A), mostly at low elevations (Plt. 274 B). Observed in the field in wetlands, in gallery forest, and savanna (Santos-Costa, 2003; Bernarde and Abe, 2006).
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2454428.