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Broad-banded Copperhead
Agkistrodon laticinctus Gloyd and Conant, 1934

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix: Stejneger, Leonhard. 1895. The poisonous snakes of North America. Annual Report of the United States National Museum 1893(2):337-487); Coppperhead (Agkistrodon mokasen: Stejneger, Leonard 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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iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
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
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

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