Agkistrodon contortrix infos & pictures

Subspecies:

Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix (LINNAEUS 1766)
Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus GLOYD & CONANT 1934
Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS 1799
Agkistrodon contortrix phaeogaster GLOYD 1969: 220
Agkistrodon contortrix pictigaster GLOYD & CONANT 1943

Author: LINNAEUS Year 1766

Common Name:

English: Southern Copperhead
laticinctus: Broad-banded Copperhead
mokasen: Northern Copperhead
phaeogaster: Osage Copperhead
pictigaster: Trans-Pecos Copperhead
German: Kupferkopf




Agkistrodon c. contortrix female at HerpaWorld

Distribution:
USA (Texas, E/C Oklahoma, E Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, S Illinois, S Indiana, S Ohio, Iowa,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, S New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts),
Mexico (NE Chihuahua, N Coahuila)

laticinctus: C/NC Texas, into C Oklahoma, north to Kansas

mokasen: Massachussetts, Connecticut, SE New York, N New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, east to Indiana and Illinois.

phaeogaster: Kansas, Missouri

pictigaster: Texas, adjacent Mexico

Comment: Venomous!

References:

Baird, S. F. and C. Girard. 1853. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1.-Serpents. Smithsonian Inst., Washington, xvi + 172 pp.
Barbour, R. W. 1962. An aggregation of copperheads, Agkistrodon contortrix Copeia 1962 (3): 640
Böhme, W. 2005. Der “Savannah River Ecology Site” und seine herpetologischen Highlights. Herpetofauna 25 (142): 13-21
Burt, Charles E. 1935. Further records of the ecology and distribution of amphibians and reptiles in the middle west American Midland Naturalist 16 (3): 311-336
Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 1989. The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America. Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, Ithaca
Christiansen, J.L., & Bailey, R.M. 1990. The snakes of Iowa. Iowa Dept. of Natur. Resources, Des Moines 16 pp.
Conant, Roger 1938. The Reptiles of Ohio American Midland Naturalist 20 (1): 1-200
Conant,R. & Collins,J.T. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America, 3rd ed. Houghton Mifflin (Boston/New York), xx + 450 p.
Cook, F.A. 1962. Snakes of Mississippi rev.ed Wildl. Mus., Mississippi Game and Fish Commission, Jackson 45 pp.
Crother, B. I. 2000. Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. Herpetogical Circular, No. 29: 1-82
Dieter Schmidt 2006. Der Kupferkopf (Agkistrodon contortrix). Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 64 pp.
Dixon, James R.;Thornton, Okla W., Jr 1996. Geographic Distribution. Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus Herpetological Review 27 (1): 33
Duméril, A. M. C., BIBRON, G. & DUMÉRIL, A. H. A., 1854. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: i-xii + 781-1536
Gloyd and Conant 1943. A synopsis of the American forms of Agkistrodon (Copperheads and Moccasins) Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci. 7: 147-170
Gloyd H. and Conant R. 1934. The broad-banded copperhead: a new spubspecies of Agkistrodon mokasen Occ. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 283, p. 2
Gloyd, H. K. 1969. Two additional subspecies of North American crotalid snakes, genus Agkistrodon Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 82: 219-232
Gloyd, Howard K.;Conant, Roger 1938. The subspecies of the copperhead, Agkistrodon mokasen Beauvois Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 5 (7): 163-166 + 1 plate
Haynie,M.R. & Knight,A. 1998. Color pattern variants in the Trans-Pecos copperhead. Southwest. Nat. 43: 499
Irwin, Kelly J. 2004. Arkansas Snake Guide. Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, Little Rock, 50 pp.
Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio duodecima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, Holmiae. 1-532 pp.
Livezey, Robert L. 1949. An aberrant pattern of Agkistrodon mokeson austrinus Herpetologica 5: 93
McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
Means, D. Bruce 1998. Geographic distribution. Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix Herpetological Review 29 (3): 175
Ortenburger, A. I. 1927. A key to the snakes of Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences 6: 197-218
Palmer, William M. 1965. Intergradation among the copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix) in the North Carolina coastal plain Copeia 1965 (2): 246-247
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Schmidt, D. 2003. Der Kupferkopf (Agkistrodon contortrix) - eine Anfängerschlange? Reptilia (Münster) 8 (2): 56-63
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Schuett, Gordon W. 1982. A copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) brood produced from Autum copulations Copeia 1982 (3): 700-702
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