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I was just wondering if any of you enthusiasts had any information on this species? Has it ever been seen in the trade, or any educational exhibits? I haven't done any real research on it, but it certainly seems like it's not well known, from what I have looked up. Was just curious.

Not much out there on Eunectes deschauenseei. It was described by Dunn and Conant in 1936 and is found in a rather small area of northeast Brazil and southeast French Guiana. Appears to be intermediate in size and some morphology between E. murinus and E. notaeus, but said to be more closely related to E. notaeus. It even shows a stripe pattern on the head very similar to that seen with the yellow anaconda.

The Philadelphia Zoo exhibited several E. deschauenseei many years ago. I believe the last one was there well over 50 years ago. I don't know of any in a private collection and haven't heard of any in the U. S. since the Philadelphia specimens. It is probably the least colorful of the four Eunectes species.

Kelly

Thanks, Kelly. Figured if anybody knew anything about them, it would be you.

It's amazing how little we know about some species.

i know this is an old post but, here ya go. i have done research on the dark spotted anaconda for around 3 years now. i have compiled over 9 pages of solid info but have yet to publish my work, there has never been any in trad or private collections, there are 3 well documented specimens kept in the philadelphia zoological gardens, the last one died in the 1990's it was 23 years and 2 months old, which is where the 23.2 year expected life span comes from on most pages. the photo on wikipedia is a yellow anaconda at the parco zoo punta verde in italy. it was falsely identified. i contacted the zoo on this one. i have contacted wikipedia about this and changed the photo with my wiki acount, but its back up within the day. so i stoped trying. Lutz Dirksen has done alot of work on them. If you dont mind translating some russian and german texts you can find alot of info within his research. but have fun finding it. other than that Mark O'Shea caught one on his TV show in 1999, but all the origan episode are long gone and cant be found anymore. He has new episode of his show that started last year, but the old ones are gone, never recorded or posted by animal planet or dicovery. that pretty much all i can give ya.