Eunectes murinus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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 murinus ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Type locality. “America.” Restricted to South America by Dirksen (2002) .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, and Venezuela ( Plt. 48A ). In Brazil, recorded in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Pampas Grasslands, and Chiquitano Dry Forest ( Plt. 48A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 48B ). Observed in the field in wet and riparian habitats including rivers, swamps, flooded grassland, lakes and lagoons ( Carvalho and Nogueira, 1998; Giraudo and Scrocchi, 2002; Bernarde and Abe, 2006; Recoder et al., 2011).

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Plate 48. Distribution map of Eunectes murinus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation. Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.