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Abstract
A genus of venomous snakes of the subfamily Crotalinae. Twelve species of this genus are found in North and Central America and Asia. Agkistrodon contortrix is the copperhead, A. piscivorus, the cottonmouth. The former is named for its russet or orange-brown color, the latter for the white interior of its mouth. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336; Moore, Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p75)
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- Ancistrodon
- Agkistrodon conanti
- Agkistrodon contortrix
- Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix
- Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus
- Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen
- Agkistrodon contortrix phaeogaster
- Agkistrodon contortrix pictigaster
- Agkistrodon piscivorus
- Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti
- Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma
- Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus
- Black Moccasin
- Boa contortrix
- Broad-Banded Copperhead
- Copperhead
- Cottonmouth
- Eastern Cottonmouth
- Florida Cottonmouth
- Northern Copperhead
- Osage Copperhead
- Southern Copperhead
- Swamp Moccasin
- Trans-Pecos Copperhead
- Water Moccasin
- Water Moccasins
- Western Cottonmouth
- Black Moccasins
- Broad Banded Copperhead
- Broad-Banded Copperheads
- Copperhead, Broad-Banded
- Copperhead, Northern
- Copperhead, Osage
- Copperhead, Southern
- Copperhead, Trans-Pecos
- Copperheads
- Cottonmouth, Eastern
- Cottonmouth, Florida
- Cottonmouth, Western
- Cottonmouths
- Eastern Cottonmouths
- Moccasin, Black
- Moccasin, Swamp
- Moccasin, Water
- Northern Copperheads
- Southern Copperheads
- Swamp Moccasins
- Trans Pecos Copperhead
- Trans-Pecos Copperheads
- Western Cottonmouths
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Indexed with the subheadings abnormalities, anatomy & histology, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, embryology, genetics, growth & development, immunology, injuries, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, physiology, surgery, urine, virology.
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History Note
1994; for WATER MOCCASIN use COLUBRIDAE 1994-2022
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- Snakes (1966-1993)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Agkistrodon. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017836. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017836
- Agkistrodon. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agkistrodon
- Agkistrodon. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1257508