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The eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), [3] also known simply as the copperhead, is a species of venomous snake, a pit viper, endemic to eastern North America; it is a member of the subfamily Crotalinae in the family Viperidae.
Agkistrodon laticinctus, commonly known as the broad-banded copperhead, is a venomous pit viper species, [2] formerly considered a subspecies [3] of Agkistrodon contortrix, which is found in the central United States, from Kansas, through Oklahoma and throughout central Texas.
The pygmy copperhead is 60 cm (2.0 ft) long, and lives in South Australia and on Kangaroo Island. The highland copperhead is 1.25 m (4.1 ft) in length and lives in alpine areas of Victoria and New South Wales. The lowland copperhead reaches 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) in length and lives in southern Victoria into Tasmania. Their colour varies a great ...
Copperhead: These are found in both wet and dry hardwood forests. They’re light brown to pinkish in color with darker, saddle-shaped crossbands. Markings are shaped like Hershey’s kisses from ...
Broad-banded copperhead [2] Eastern Kansas, central Oklahoma, central and Trans-Pecos Texas, and adjacent areas of northern Chihuahua and Coahuila, Mexico. A. howardgloydi. Conant 1984 [23] Gloyd's moccasin [18] Northwestern Costa Rica, western Nicaragua, southern Honduras. A. piscivorus (Lacépède 1798) [24] Northern cottonmouth [2]
The northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen) was once classified as a subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix).However, DNA based studies published in 2008 and 2015, revealed no significant genetic difference between the northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), the southern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix) and the Osage copperhead ...
Baby copperhead bites just aren’t as common. Most bites from copperheads on humans seem to be from adults, Beane said. “I don’t hear much about people being bitten by newborns,” Bean said.
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