Agkistrodon

Svensk definition

Ett släkte giftormar tillhörande underfamiljen Crotalinae. Tolv arter är kända och förekommer Nord- och Centralamerika och Asien.

Engelsk definition

A genus of venomous snakes of the subfamily Crotalinae. Twelve species of this genus are found in North and Central America and Asia. Agkistrodon contortrix is the copperhead, A. piscivorus, the cottonmouth. The former is named for its russet or orange-brown color, the latter for the white interior of its mouth. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336; Moore, Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p75)

Svenska synonymer

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Engelska synonymer

Ancistrodon — Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus — Broad-Banded Copperhead — Broad Banded Copperhead — Broad-Banded Copperheads — Copperhead, Broad-Banded — Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen — Northern Copperhead — Copperhead, Northern — Northern Copperheads — Agkistrodon contortrix phaeogaster — Osage Copperhead — Copperhead, Osage — Agkistrodon contortrix pictigaster — Trans-Pecos Copperhead — Copperhead, Trans-Pecos — Trans Pecos Copperhead — Trans-Pecos Copperheads — Agkistrodon conanti — Florida Cottonmouth — Cottonmouth, Florida — Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti — Cottonmouth — Cottonmouths — Swamp Moccasin — Moccasin, Swamp — Swamp Moccasins — Water Moccasin — Water Moccasins — Moccasin, Water — Agkistrodon piscivorus — Black Moccasin — Black Moccasins — Moccasin, Black — Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus — Eastern Cottonmouth — Cottonmouth, Eastern — Eastern Cottonmouths — Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma — Western Cottonmouth — Cottonmouth, Western — Western Cottonmouths — Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix — Southern Copperhead — Copperhead, Southern — Southern Copperheads — Copperhead — Copperheads — Boa contortrix — Agkistrodon contortrix