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Broad-banded Copperhead
Agkistrodon laticinctus Gloyd and Conant, 1934

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Kansas Oklahoma Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix: Stejneger, Leonhard H. 1895. The poisonous snakes of North America. Annual Report of the United States National Museum 1893(2):337-487); Coppperhead (Agkistrodon mokasen: Stejneger, Leonhard H. and Thomas Barbour. 1917. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.); Broad-banded Copperhead (Agkistrodon mokasen laticinctus: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Broad-banded Copperhead (Ancistrodon contortrix laticinctus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Trans-pecos Copperhead (Ancistrodon contortrix laticinctus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
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GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1934 Gloyd, Howard K. and Roger Conant. The broad-banded copperhead: A new subspecies of Agkistrodon mokasen. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (283):1-5
1938 Gloyd, Howard K. and Roger Conant. The subspecies of the copperhead, Agkistrodon mokasen Beauvois. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 5(7):163-166
1943 Gloyd, Howard K. and Roger Conant. A synopsis of the American forms of Agkistrodon (copperheads and moccasins). Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 7(2):147-170
1972 Baker, Robert J., George A. Mengden, and James J. Bull. Karyotypic studies of thirty-eight species of North American snakes . Copeia 1972(2):257-265
1985 Fitch, Henry S. and Joseph T. Collins. Intergradation of the Osage and Broad-banded Copperheads in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 88(3-4):135-137
1989 Campbell, Jonathan A. and D. H. Whitmore, Jr. A comparison of the skin keratin biochemistry in vipers with comments on its systematic value. Herpetologica 45:242-249
1989 Chiasson, R. B., D. L. Bentley, and C. H. Lowe. Scale morphology in Agkistrodon, and closely related crotaline genera. Herpetologica 45:430-438
1990 Gloyd, Howard K. and Roger Conant. Snakes of the Agkistrodon complex: A monographic review. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Contributions to Herpetology Number 6, . pp.
1992 Knight, A., L. D. Densmore III, and E. D. Rael. Molecular systematics of the Agkistrodon complex. Pages 49-69 in Biology of the Pitvipers Selva, Tyler, Texas. pp.
2008 Guiher, T. J. and Frank T. Burbrink. Demographic and phylogeographic histories of two venomous North American snakes of the genus Agkistrodon. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48:543-553
2009 Castoe, Todd A., Alexander W. Poole, Wanjun Gu, A. P. Jason de Koning, Juan M. Daza, Eric N. Smith, and David D. Pollock. Rapid identification of thousands of copperhead snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) microsatellite loci from modest amounts of 454 shotgun genome sequence. Molecular Ecology Resources 10(2):341-347
2014 Burbrink, Frank T. and Timothy J. Guiher. Considering gene flow when using coalescent methods to delimit lineages of North American pitvipers of the genus Agkistrodon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2014:1-22
2015 Burbrink, Frank T. and Timothy J. Guiher. Considering gene flow when using coalescent methods to delimit lineages of North American pitvipers of the genus Agkistrodon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173:505–526
2020 Hillis, David M. The detection and naming of geographic variation within species. Herpetological Review 51(1):52-56
2024 Harrington, Sean, Isaac Overcast, Edward A. Myers, and Frank T. Burbrink. Pleistocene glaciation drove shared population coexpansion in eastern North American snakes. Molecular Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17625:e17625

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