False Water Cobra,

Hydrodynastes gigas Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854

Two mutilated individuals (Fig. 15) 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, Concpeción, 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 is considered to be “Least Concern” in Paraguay (Martínez et al., 2020c).