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Cottonmouth

Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)

Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Agkistrodon piscivorus
Species recognized by wikipedia 日本語, wikipedia POL, wikipedia VI, wikipedia CZ, wikipedia FI, wikipedia NO, wikipedia TR, wikipedia EU, Mexico Species List, Gulf of Mexico Species List, North Atlantic Species List, wikipedia LT, wikipedia MS, NCBI, EOL authors, Hone et al 2013, Wildfinder (WWF), and United States Species List
Agkistrodon piscivorus
Recognized by CalPhotos, AnAge articles, Animal Diversity Web, Da Silva et al 2020, and Bioimages Vanderbilt
Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)
Species recognized by GBIF classification
Agkistrodon piscivorus Bonnaterre
Recognized by OBIS environmental data records
Agkistrodon piscivorus Lacépède 1789
Recognized by Public Health Image Library and ReptileDB
Agkistrodon piscivorus
Species recognized by wikidata_hierarchy tar gz, wikipedia DE, wikipedia ES, wikipedia IT, wikipedia FR, wikipedia 한국어 위키백과, wikipedia EN, Wikidata Common Names, Wikimedia Commons, Barcode of Life Data Systems, Global Biotic Interactions, Global Biotic Interactions, Global Biotic Interactions, iNaturalist data coverage, Wikipedia (inferred records), and GGBN data coverage
Agkistrodon piscivorus
Recognized by AnAge, Animal Diversity Web Traits and images, Flickr BHL, BHL data coverage, and Flickr Group
Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacepede 1789)
Species recognized by IUCN and TreatmentBank
Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)
Species recognized by Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024, iNaturalist, Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy, GBIF data coverage, Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3, and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4
Agkistrodon piscivorus Lacépède 1789
Species recognized by World Register of Marine Species

Alternative Names

Crotalus piscivorus Lacépède 1789
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Acontias leucostoma Troost 1836
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti
Synonym according to ReptileDB, ReptileDB, and ReptileDB
Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti Gloyd 1969
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma
Synonym according to ReptileDB and ReptileDB
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (Troost 1836)
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Agkistrodon piscivorus
Synonym according to ReptileDB and ReptileDB
Agkistrodon piscivorus Conant & Collins 1991
Heterotypic synonym according to GBIF classification
Ancistrodon piscivorus
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Crotalus piscivorus Lacépède 1789
Proparte synonym according to GBIF classification
Crotalus piscivorus Lacépède 1789
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Toxicophis piscivorus
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Trigonocephalus piscivorus
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Acontias leucostoma Troost 1836
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024
Crotalus piscivorus Lacépède 1789
Invalid according to Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy
Crotalus piscivorus Lacépède 1789
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4
Crotalus piscivorus Lacépède 1789
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024

Common Names

English

Eastern Cottonmouth
prefer
Recognized by ReptileDB
Western Cottonmouth
prefer
Recognized by ReptileDB
conanti
prefer
Recognized by ReptileDB and Animal Diversity Web
Water moccasin
prefer
Recognized by AnAge
Cottonmouth preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Bulgarian

Водна щитомуцунеста змия preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Czech

ploskolebec vodní preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Dutch; Flemish

Watermoccasinslang preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Finnish

Vesimokkasiinikäärme preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

French

mocassin d'eau preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

German

Wasser-Mokassinotter
prefer
Recognized by ReptileDB
Wassermokassinotter preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Hebrew

מוקסין המים preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Hungarian

Vízi mokaszinkígyó preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Japanese

ヌママムシ preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Korean

늪살무사 preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Lithuanian

Vandeninis mokazinas preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Malayalam

വാട്ടർ മോക്കസിൻ preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Navajo; Navaho

Haʼaʼaahdę́ę́ʼ tłʼiish bizééʼ łigaaígíí preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Norwegian

Vannmokkasin preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Polish

Mokasyn błotny preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Russian

Водяной щитомордник preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Turkish

Su mokaseni preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Ukrainian

Мокасинова змія водяна preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Pnb

اگکسٹروڈون پسیورس preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names
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Curated hierarchies for Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Reptilia
Diapsida
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Serpentes
Alethinophidia Nopcsa 1923
Viperidae Oppel 1811
Crotalinae Oppel 1811
Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois 1799
Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789) (this page)
Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti Gloyd 1969
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (Troost 1836)
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)
Agkistrodon bilineatus Günther 1863
Agkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus 1766)
Agkistrodon howardgloydi Conant 1984
Agkistrodon russeolus Gloyd 1972
Agkistrodon taylori Burger & Robertson 1951

Catalogue of Life 26 March 2024

Biota
Animalia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Squamata
Viperidae
Crotalinae
Agkistrodon
Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789) (this page)
Agkistrodon bilineatus Günther 1863
Agkistrodon conanti Gloyd 1969
Agkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus 1766)
Agkistrodon howardgloydi Conant 1984
Agkistrodon laticinctus Gloyd & Conant 1934
Agkistrodon russeolus Gloyd 1972
Agkistrodon taylori Burger & Robertson 1951

Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.3

Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789) (this page)
Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti Gloyd 1969
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (Troost 1836)
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)
Agkistrodon bilineatus Günther 1863
Agkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus 1766)
Agkistrodon howardgloydi Conant 1984
Agkistrodon russeolus Gloyd 1972
Agkistrodon taylori Burger & Robertson 1951

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2.4

Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789) (this page)
Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti Gloyd 1969
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (Troost 1836)
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)
Agkistrodon bilineatus Günther 1863
Agkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus 1766)
Agkistrodon howardgloydi Conant 1984
Agkistrodon russeolus Gloyd 1972
Agkistrodon taylori Burger & Robertson 1951

GBIF classification

Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Viperidae
Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois 1799
Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789) (this page)
Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti Gloyd 1969
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (Troost 1836)
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus
Agkistrodon bilineatus Günther 1863
Agkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus 1766)
Agkistrodon howardgloydi Conant 1984
Agkistrodon russeolus Gloyd 1972
Agkistrodon taylori Burger & Robertson 1951

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy

Animalia
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Tetrapoda
Reptilia Laurenti 1768
Squamata Oppel 1811
Serpentes Linnaeus 1758
Alethinophidia Nopcsa 1923
Viperidae Oppel 1811
Crotalinae Oppel 1811
Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois 1799
Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacépède 1789) (this page)
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma (Troost 1836)
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus (Lacépède 1789)
Agkistrodon bilineatus Günther 1863
Agkistrodon conanti Gloyd 1969
Agkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus 1766)
Agkistrodon howardgloydi Conant 1984
Agkistrodon laticinctus Gloyd & Conant 1934
Agkistrodon russeolus Gloyd 1972
Agkistrodon taylori Burger & Robertson 1951

IUCN

Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Viperidae
Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacepede 1789) (this page)
Atheris anisolepis Mocquard 1887
Atheris barbouri Loveridge 1930
Atheris ceratophora Werner 1895
Atheris chlorechis (Pel 1851)
Atheris hirsuta Ernst & Rödel 2002
Atheris squamigera (Hallowell 1854)
Azemiops feae Boulenger 1888
Bitis atropos (Linnaeus 1758)
Bitis gabonica (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854)
Bitis nasicornis (Shaw & Nodder 1792)
Bitis peringueyi (Boulenger 1888)
Bitis rhinoceros (Schlegel 1855)
Bothrocophias campbelli (Freire-Lascano 1991)
Bothrocophias colombianus (Rendahl & Vestergren 1940)
Bothrocophias hyoprora (Amaral 1935)
Bothrocophias microphthalmus (Cope 1876)
Bothrocophias myersi Gutberlet & Campbell 2001
Bothrops alternatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
Bothrops ammodytoides Leybold 1873
Bothrops bilineatus (Wied-Neuwied 1821)
Bothrops chloromelas (Boulenger 1912)
Bothrops cotiara (Gomes 1913)
Bothrops diporus Cope 1862
Bothrops erythromelas Amaral 1923
Bothrops fonsecai Hoge & Belluomini 1959
Bothrops itapetiningae (Boulenger 1907)
Bothrops jararaca (Wied-Neuwied 1824)
Bothrops jararacussu Lacerda 1884
Bothrops jonathani Harvey 1994
Bothrops lojanus Parker 1930
Bothrops lutzi (Miranda-Ribeiro 1915)
Bothrops mattogrossensis Amaral 1925
Bothrops medusa (Sternfield 1920)
Bothrops neuwiedi Wagler 1824
Bothrops oligolepis (Werner 1901)
Bothrops pauloensis Amaral 1925
Bothrops pubescens (Cope 1870)
Bothrops pulchra (Peters 1862)
Bothrops taeniatus Wagler 1824
Causus bilineatus Boulenger 1905
Causus defilippii (Jan 1862)
Causus lichtensteinii (Jan 1859)
Causus maculatus (Hallowell 1842)
Causus rasmusseni Broadley 2014
Causus resimus (Peters 1862)
Causus rhombeatus (Lichtenstein 1823)
Cerastes gasperettii Leviton & Anderson 1967
Cerastes vipera (Linnaeus 1758)
Crotalus durissus Linnaeus 1758
Daboia russelii (Shaw & Nodder 1797)
Echis carinatus (Schneider 1801)
Echis hughesi Cherlin 1990
Echis jogeri Cherlin 1990
Echis ocellatus Stemmler 1970
Echis pyramidum (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1827)
Echis romani Trape 2018
Eristicophis macmahoni Alcock & Finn 1897
Gloydius halys (Pallas 1776)
Gloydius intermedius (Strauch 1868)
Hypnale hypnale (Merem 1820)
Hypnale nepa (Laurenti 1768)
Hypnale zara (Gray 1849)
Macrovipera lebetina (Linnaeus 1758)
Macrovipera schweizeri (Werner 1935)
Montivipera albicornuta (Nilson & Andrén 1985)
Protobothrops jerdonii (Günther 1875)
Protobothrops kaulbacki (Smith 1940)
Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (Cantor 1839)
Protobothrops sieversorum (Ziegler, Herrmann, David, Orlov & Pauwels 2000)
Protobothrops xiangchengensis (Zhao, Jiang & Huang 1978)
Pseudocerastes fieldi Schmidt 1930
Pseudocerastes persicus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854)
Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi, S. Anderson, Kami & Papenfuss 2006
Trimeresurus albolabris Gray 1842
Trimeresurus arunachalensis Captain, Deepak, Pandit, Bhatt & Athreya 2019
Trimeresurus brongersmai Hoge 1969
Trimeresurus erythrurus (Cantor 1839)
Trimeresurus flavomaculatus (Gray 1842)
Trimeresurus fucatus Vogel, David & Pauwels 2004
Trimeresurus gramineus (Shaw 1802)
Trimeresurus gunaleni Vogel, David & Sidik 2014
Trimeresurus insularis (Kramer 1977)
Trimeresurus macrolepis Beddome 1862
Trimeresurus malabaricus (Jerdon 1854)
Trimeresurus mcgregori Taylor 1919
Trimeresurus mutabilis Stoliczka 1870
Trimeresurus schultzei Griffin 1909
Trimeresurus strigatus Gray 1842
Trimeresurus sumatranus (Raffles 1822)
Trimeresurus tibetanus Huang 1982
Tropidolaemus laticinctus (Kuch, Gumprecht & Melaun 2007)
Vipera anatolica Eiselt & Baran 1970
Vipera barani Böhme & Joger 1984
Vipera ebneri Knoppfler & Sochurek 1955
Vipera eriwanensis (Reuss 1933)
Vipera lotievi Nilson, Tuniyev, Orlov, Hoggren & Andren 1995
Vipera magnifica Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh 2001
Vipera orlovi Tuniyev & Ostrovskikh 2001
Vipera renardi (Christoph 1861)
Vipera transcaucasiana Boulenger 1913
205 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

NCBI

root
cellular organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Craniata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Teleostomi
Euteleostomi
Sarcopterygii
Dipnotetrapodomorpha
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Sauropsida
Sauria
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Bifurcata
Unidentata
Episquamata
Toxicofera
Serpentes
Colubroidea
Viperidae
Crotalinae
Agkistrodon
Agkistrodon piscivorus (this page)
Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus
Agkistrodon bilineatus
Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon howardgloydi
Agkistrodon russeolus
Agkistrodon taylori

wikidata_hierarchy tar gz

Biota
Eukaryota
Unikonta
Opisthokonta
Holozoa
Filozoa
Apoikozoa
Animalia
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Olfactores
Craniata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Dipnotetrapodomorpha
Tetrapodomorpha
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Amniota
Sauropsida
Reptilia
Eureptilia
Romeriida
Diapsida
Neodiapsida
Sauria
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Episquamata
Toxicofera
Ophidia
Serpentes
Alethinophidia
Caenophidia
Viperidae
Crotalinae
Agkistrodon
Agkistrodon piscivorus (this page)
Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus
Agkistrodon acutus
Agkistrodon bilineatus
Agkistrodon blomhoffi
Agkistrodon browni
Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon himalayanus
Agkistrodon howardgloydi
Agkistrodon intermedius
Agkistrodon laticinctus
Agkistrodon russeolus
Agkistrodon shedaoensis
Agkistrodon taylori
Agkistrodon tsushimaensis

World Register of Marine Species

Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Viperidae
Agkistrodon
Agkistrodon piscivorus Lacépède 1789 (this page)
Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus Lacépède 1789
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