Northern copperhead snake

Northern copperhead snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Viperidae
Genus:	Agkistrodon
Species:	A. contortrix
Subspecies:	A. c. mokasen
Trinomial name
	Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen; Palisot de Beauvois, 1799
Synonyms
	Agkistrodon mokason ; Palisot de Beauvois, 1799; Agkishodon mokasen ; Palisot de Beauvois, 1799; Cenchris mokeson Daudin, 1803; Scytale mockeson Say, 1819; Agkistrodon mokasen – Beyer, 1898; Ancistrodon mokasen – Brown, 1908; Agkistrodon mokasen mokasen ; – Gloyd & Conant, 1934; Agkistrodon mokeson mokeson ; – Gloyd & Conant, 1943; Agkistrodon mokeson ; – Davis & Brimley, 1944; Agkistrodon contortrix mokeson ; – Klauber, 1948; Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen ; – Klimstra, 1950; Ancistrodon contortrix mokeson ; – Schmidt, 1953; Agkistrodon contortrix makasen Bonn & McCarley, 1953; Ancistrodon contortrix mokasen ; – Petersen, 1970; Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen ; – Harding & Welch, 1980;

The northern copperhead snake (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen) is a subspecies of the copperhead snake. It is found in the eastern United States.^[2]

References

↑ McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
↑ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2020-09-18.