Agkistrodon piscivorus infos & picture

Subspecies:
Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti GLOYD 1969: 226
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (TROOST 1836)
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (LACÉPÈDE 1789)

Author: LACÉPÈDE, 1789

Common Name:
conanti: Florida Cottonmouth
piscivorus: Eastern Cottonmouth
leucostoma: Western Cottonmouth
German: Wasser-Mokassinotter




Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus, female at HerpaWorld

Location:
USA (Texas, S/E Oklahoma, S Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, E North Carolina, W Tennessee, W Kentucky, S Illinois, Indiana, SE Virginia)

piscivorus: Atlantic coastal plain south from SE Virginia west to Alabama
conanti: Florida and S Georgia
leucostoma: from the Mexican border (Rio Grande valley) through E Oklahoma to C Missouri and S Illinois, W Kentucky, Tennessee to Mobil Bay, Alabama.

Comment: Venomous!

References:
Allen, Morrow J. 1932. A survey of the Amphibians and reptiles of Harrison County, Mississippi American Museum Novitates (542): 1-20
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.
Blem, Charles R.;Blem, Leann B. 1995. The eastern cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) at the northern edge of its range Journal of Herpetology 29 (3): 391-398
Burkett, Ray D. 1969. Natural history of cottonmouth moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus (Reptilia). Univ. of Kans. Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 17(9):435-491
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
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.
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
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Franklin, Carl J. 2006. Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma Diet. Herpetological Review 37 (1): 93
Gloyd, H. K. 1969. Two additional subspecies of North American crotalid snakes, genus Agkistrodon Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 82: 219-232
Irwin, Kelly J. 2004. Arkansas Snake Guide. Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, Little Rock, 50 pp.
Jiang Z, Castoe T, Austin C, Burbrink F, Herron M, McGuire J, Parkinson C, Pollock D 2007. Comparative mitochondrial genomics of snakes: extraordinary substitution rate dynamics and functionality of the duplicate control region. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:123
Lacepède, B. G. E. 1789. Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et de Serpens. Vol.2. lmprimerie du Roi, Hôtel de Thou, Paris, 671 pp.
Lee, John R. 1996. Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Eastern cottonmouth). Coloration Herpetological Review 27 (1): 22
McDiarmid,R.W.; Campbell,J.A. & Touré,T.A. 1999. Snake species of the world. Vol. 1. Herpetologists’ League, 511 pp.
Merkle, Donald A. 1985. Genetic variation in the Eastern cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Lacépède) (Reptilia: Crotalidae) at the northern edge of its range Brimleyana 11: 55-61
Parkinson,C.L. 1999. Molecular systematics and biogeographical history of pitvipers as determined by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. Copeia 1999 (3): 576-586
Schmidt, D. & Kunz, K. 2005. Ernährung von Schlangen. Natur und Tier Verlag, Münster, 159 pp.
Snyder, Richard C. 1945. Notes on the snakes of southeastern Alabama Copeia 1945 (3): 173-174
Troost 1836. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York 3, p. 176, pl. 5, figs. 1-4
Trutnau, L. 1984. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Kupferkopfs - Agkistrodon contortrix (LINNAEUS 1766). Herpetofauna 7 (35): 14-26
Vaughn, R. Kathryn;Baumgardner, George D. 1996. Geographic Distribution. Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma Herpetological Review 27 (1): 33
Wharton, C. H. 1969. The cottonmouth moccasin on sea horse key, Florida Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 14 (3): 227-272

This A. p. conanti juvenile was found by a friend in or near Jasper County, Florida.

very nice snakes, great finding

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