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).