Hydrodynastes gigas Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854

False Water Cobra,

Hydrodynastes gigas Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854

Two mutilated individuals ( Fig. 15 View Fig ) 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   GoogleMaps , Concpeción   GoogleMaps , Cordillera, Itapúa, Misiones, Ñeembucú, Paraguarí, Presidente Hayes and San Pedro departments in Paraguay ( Cabral and Weiler, 2014; Cacciali et al., 2016b; Smith et al., 2016, 2024; Zárate et al., 2019). It   GoogleMaps is considered to be “Least Concern” in Paraguay ( Martínez et al., 2020c).