Agkistrodon piscivorus
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Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Viperoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Agkistrodon
Species: Agkistrodon piscivorus
Name
[edit]Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède, 1789) [conserved name]
- Type material: not designated, unknown.
- Type locality: “Caroline”, restricted to “vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina”, by Schmidt (1953: 225).
- Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1463 (1987: 265).
Combinations
[edit]- Crotalus piscivorus Lacépède, 1789: 130 [original combination]
- Scytale piscivorus — Daudin, 1803: 344 [subsequent combination]
- Natrix piscivorus — Merrem, 1820: 131 [subsequent combination]
- Trigonocephalus piscivorus — Holbrook, 1838: 63 [subsequent combination]
- Cenchris piscivorus — Gray, 1842: 51 [subsequent combination]
- Toxicophis piscivorus — Baird & Girard, 1853: 19 [subsequent combination]
- Ancistrodon piscivorus — Cope, 1860: 336 [subsequent combination]
- Agkistrodon piscivorus — Jordan, 1888: 199 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]- Acontias leucostoma Troost, 1836: 176
- Holotype: unknown, probably lost.
- Neotype: CHAS 5604, adult ♂, collected by W.F. Ross in 1935. [designated by Gloyd & Conant (1943: 164)]
- Type locality: “western district of Tennessee”, redesignated by neotype designation to “10 miles northeast of Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tennessee” by Gloyd & Conant (1943: 164).
- Toxicophis pugnax Baird & Girard, 1853: 20
- Holotype: USNM 61063 (formerly 4262), head only, collected by J.D. Graham [U.S. and Mexican Boundary Survey].
- Type locality: “Indianola, Tex. [=Texas]”.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Lacépède, B.G.E. 1789. Histoire naturelle des serpens. Tome Second. Hôtel de Thou: Paris. 462 pp. 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.
- Baird, S.F. & Girard, C. 1853. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1.–Serpents. Smithsonian Institution: Washington. xvi + 172 pp. 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.
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1987. Opinion 1463. De Lacépède, 1788-1789, Histoire Naturelle des Serpens and later editions: rejected as a non-binominal work. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 44(4): 265–267. 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., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., Reyes, F., Kudera, J. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Agkistrodon piscivorus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 21 May 2021.
- Hammerson, G.A. 2007. IUCN: Agkistrodon piscivorus (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T64298A12756313. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T64298A12756313.en
Vernacular names
[edit]- com: Tuhparokooʔ
- Deutsch: Wassermokassinotter
- English: Cottonmouth
- français: Mocassin d’eau
- magyar: Vízi mokaszinkígyó, halászvipera
- Nederlands: Watermoccasinslang
- Osage: Níi wécʼa
- polski: Mokasyn błotny
- Türkçe: Su makoseni
