Agkistrodon contortrix

Taxonavigation

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Taxonavigation: Viperoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata
Cladus: Toxicofera
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Agkistrodon
Species (8): A. bilineatus – A. conanti – A. contortrix – A. howardgloydi – A. laticinctus – A. piscivorus – A. russeolus – A. taylori

Name

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Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799: 370

Synonymy

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  • Agkishodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799: 370 [typographical error]
  • Scytale Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille, 1802: 158 [preoccupied by Scytale Gronovius, 1763]
    • Type species: Boa contortrix Linnaeus, 1766, by subsequent designation by Smith & Gloyd (1964: 281).
  • Cenchris Daudin, 1803: 356
  • Scytalus Fischer, 1813: 59 [emendation of Scytale Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille, 1802]
  • Tisiphone Fitzinger, 1826: 34 [preoccupied by Tisiphone Huebner, 1819]
  • Ancistrodon Wagler, 1830: 176 [emendation of Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799]
  • Acontias Troost, 1836: 176 [preoccupied by Acontias Cuvier, 1817]
    • Type species: Acontias leucostoma Troost, 1836, by subsequent designation by Stejneger (1895: 401).
  • Toxicophis Troost, 1836: 190 [substitute name for Acontias Troost, 1836]

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Vernacular names

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Deutsch: Dreieckskopfottern
English: American Copperheads
Türkçe: Mokasenler
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