Hydrodynastes gigas ( Duméril et al., 1854 )

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 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.2994/SAJH-D-19-00120.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10063245
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scientific name	Hydrodynastes gigas ( Duméril et al., 1854 )
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Hydrodynastes gigas ( Duméril et al., 1854) View in CoL

Type locality. Province of Corrientes, Argentina .

Distribution. Known from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay ( Plt. 274A View Plate 274 ). In Brazil, recorded in the Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal, Chiquitano Dry Forest and Amazonia ( Plt. 274A View Plate 274 ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 274B View Plate 274 ). Observed in the field in wetlands, in gallery forest, and savanna ( Santos-Costa, 2003; Bernarde and Abe, 2006).