Not to be confused with the proterosuchid archosauriform Ankistrodon.
Agkistrodon
Eastern copperhead, Agkistrodon contortrix
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Suborder:
Serpentes
Family:
Viperidae
Subfamily:
Crotalinae
Genus:
Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799
Synonyms
Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799
Agkishodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799
Scytale Latreille In Sonnini & Latreille, 1801
Cenchris Daudin, 1803
Cenchrus Link, 1807
Scytalus Fischer, 1813
Tisiphone Fitzinger, 1826
Ancistrodon Wagler, 1830
Acontias Troost, 1836
Toxicophis Troost, 1836[1]
Agkistrodon is a genus of venomous pit vipers commonly known as American moccasins.[2][3] The genus is endemic to North America, ranging from the Southern United States to northern Costa Rica.[1] Eight species are currently recognized,[4][5] all of them monotypic and closely related.[6] Common names include: cottonmouths, copperheads, and cantils.[7]
^ abMcDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
^Crother, B. I. (ed.). 2017. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. SSAR Herpetological Circular 43, 1–102 pp. (page 59)
^Liner, E. A. and G. Casas-Andreu. 2008. Standard Spanish, English and scientific names of the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico. Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 38: i-iv, 1-162. (pages 95-96)
^Porras, Louis W., Larry David Wilson, Gordon W. Schuett, and Randall S. Reiserer 2013. A taxonomic reevaluation and conservation assessment of the common cantil, Agkistrodon bilineatus (Squamata: Viperidae): a race against time. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 7(1): 48–73.
^Frank T. Burbrink, Timothy J. Guiher (2014). Considering gene flow when using coalescent methods to delimit lineages of North American pitvipers of the genus Agkistrodon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, December 2014. doi:10.1111/zoj.12211
^Gloyd HK, Conant R. 1990. Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex: A Monographic Review. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. 614 pp. 52 plates. LCCN 89-50342. ISBN 0-916984-20-6.
^Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London. 870 pp. 1500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.
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System. Retrieved 9 August 2008. Gloyd HK, Conant R. 1990. Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex: A Monographic Review. Society for the Study of Amphibians and...
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