Cottonmouth
Agkistrodon piscivorus · described by (LACÉPÈDE 1789)
The facts
- Scientific name
- Agkistrodon piscivorus
- First described
- (LACÉPÈDE 1789)
- Also called
- Cottonmouth, Water Moccasin
- 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.