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Reptilia
Squamata (part)
Crotalidae
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
NatureServe
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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