Agkistrodon contortrix
Taxonavigation
editTaxonavigation: Viperoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Agkistrodon
Species: Agkistrodon contortrix
Name
editAgkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus, 1766)
- Type material: not designated, unknown.
- Type locality: “Carolina”, restricted to “Charleston, South Carolina” by Schmidt (1953: 224).
Combinations
edit- Boa contortrix Linnaeus, 1766: 373 [original combination]
- Scytale contortrix — Latreille, 1802: 159 [subsequent combination]
- Trigonocephalus contortrix — Holbrook, 1838: 69 [subsequent combination]
- Cenchris contortrix — Gray, 1842: 50 [subsequent combination]
- Agkistrodon contortrix — Baird & Girard, 1853: 17 [subsequent combination]
- Ancistrodon contortrix — Baird, 1854: 13 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
edit- Agkistrodon mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 1799: 370
- Type material: unknown.
- Type locality: not stated.
- Cenchris mokason Daudin, 1803: 358
- Type material: unknown.
- Type locality: “Philadelphia”, restricted to “vicinity of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania”.
- Scytalus cupreus Rafinesque, 1818: 85
- Type material: unknown.
- Neotype: UMMZ 81758.
- Type locality: not stated, designated by neotype designation to “2 miles south of Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York”.
- Acontias atro-fuscus Troost, 1836: 181
- Holotype: unknown.
- Type locality: “Maury county, Tenn. [=Tennessee]”.
- Trigonocephalus cenchris Schlegel, 1837: 553
- Type material: unknown.
- Type locality: “habite les provinces méridionales des États-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord”.
References
editPrimary references
edit- Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 1): 1–532. BHL Reference page.
- Palisot de Beauvois, M. 1799. Memoir on Amphibia. Serpents. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4: 362–381. BHL Reference page.
- Daudin, F.M. 1803. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Cinquième. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 365 pp. + plates LIX–LXX. BHL Reference page.
- Rafinesque, C.S. 1818. Natural History of the Scytalus Cupreus, or Copper-head Snake. American Journal of Science 1: 84–86. BHL Reference page.
- Boie, F. 1827. Bemerkungen über Merrem’s Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien. Marburg, 1820. 1te Lieferung, Ophidier. Isis von Oken 20(6): 508–566. BHL Reference page.
- Troost, G. 1836. On a new genus of serpents, and two new species of the genus Heterodon, inhabiting Tennessee. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 3: 174–190. BHL Reference page.
- Schlegel, H. 1837. Essai sur la physionomie des serpens. Partie Descriptive. Volume 2. M.H. Schonekat: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 606 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Duméril, A.M.C. 1853. Prodrome de la classification des reptiles ophidiens. Mémoires de l'Académie de Sciences de l'Institut de France 23: 399–536. BHL Reference page.
- Gloyd, H.K. & Conant, R. 1943. A synopsis of the American forms of Agkistrodon (copperheads and moccasins). Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 7(2): 147–170. Reference page.
- Gloyd, H.K. 1969. Two additional subspecies of North American crotalid snakes, genus Agkistrodon. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 82(1): 219–232. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
edit- Burbrink, F.T. & Guiher, T.J. 2015. 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(2): 505–526. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12211 Reference page.
Links
edit- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Agkistrodon contortrix. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 May 2021.
- Frost, D.R., Hammerson, G.A. & Santos-Barrera, G. 2007. IUCN: Agkistrodon contortrix (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T64297A12756101. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64297A12756101.en
Vernacular names
editEnglish: copperhead
français: mocassin à tête cuivrée, serpent cuivré
Nederlands: moccasinslang
polski: mokasyn miedziogłowiec
Türkçe: bakır kafalı
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