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Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède, 1789)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Squamata
family
Viperidae
genus
Agkistrodon
species
Agkistrodon piscivorus

Name

Synonyms
Acontias leucostoma Troost, 1836
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (Troost, 1836)
Crotalus piscivorus Lacépède, 1789
Homonyms
Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède, 1789)
Common names
Cottonmouth in English
Northern Cottonmouth in language.
Northern Cottonmouth in English
Wasser-Mokassinotter in German
Western Cottonmouth in language.
Westliche Wassermokassinotter [leucostoma] in German
Östliche Wasser-Mokassinotter [piscivorus] in German
Cottonmouth in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  2. Blem, C. R.; Blem, L. B. (1995). The Eastern Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) at the Northern Edge of Its Range. <em>Journal of Herpetology.</em> 29(3): 391-398. 10.2307/1564989
  3. Crother, Brian I., Ronald M. Bonett, Jeff Boundy, Frank T. Burbrink, et al. / Moriarty, John J., ed., 2017: Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, Eighth Ed.. Herpetological Circular, no. 43. 102.
  4. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  5. McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré, 1999: null. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. xi + 511.
  6. Zug, G. R. 2009. Reptiles (Vertebrata: Reptilia) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1317–1320 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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