Eunectes notaeus

Familia: Boidae
Subfamilia: Boinae
Genus: Eunectes
Species:

• Eunectes notaeus Cope, 1862: 70

Holotype: USNM 4707, collected by T.J. Page (Paraguay Exped.), between Sept. 1853 – Jan. 1856. [lost fide Peters in Stimson (1969: 22)]

Type locality: “Paraguay River and confluents”, restricted to “Paraguay River about thirty miles South of Fort Coimbra, Brazil, near lat. 20°S” by Cope (1862: 350) fide Waller (2000: 77).

• Eunectes murinus Peracca, 1895: 13 (nec Linnaeus) [chresonym]
• Epicrates wieningeri Steindachner, 1903: 15

Holotype: NMW 18929, collected by Wieninger.

Type locality: “Paraguay bei Altos”.

• Cope, E.D. 1862. Synopsis of the Species of Holcosus and Ameiva, with Diagnoses of new West Indian and South American Colubridae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 14: 60–82. BHL Reference page. 
• Steindachner, F. 1903. Über einige neue Reptilien- und Fischarten des Hofmuseums in Wien. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Abt. 1, 112: 15–22. BHL
• Waller, T. 2000. Sobre la localidad tipo de Eunectes notaeus Cope (Serpentes, Boidae). Cuadernos de Herpetología 14(1): 77–78.

• McDiarmid, R.W., Campbell, J.A. & Touré, T.A. 1999. Snake Species of the World. Volume 1. Herpetologists’ League. 511 pp.
• Leynaud, G.C. & Bucher, E.H. 1999. La fauna de serpientes del Chaco Sudamericano: diversidad, distribución geografica y estado de conservación. Academia Nacional de Ciencias Misceláneas 98: 1–46. Online Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Eunectes notaeus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 14 July 2018.

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