Copperhead
Agkistrodon contortrix · described by (LINNAEUS 1766)
The facts
- Scientific name
- Agkistrodon contortrix
- First described
- (LINNAEUS 1766)
- Also called
- Copperhead
- Class
- Reptiles (Reptilia)
- Order
- Scaled Reptiles (Squamata)
- Group
- Snakes (Serpentes)
- Family
- Viperidae
- Genus
- Agkistrodon
Taxonomic data: Uetz, P. et al. (eds.), The Reptile Database, under CC-BY 4.0.