Image of Moccasins
Description:
This 2008 photograph depicted an adult venomous Southern copperhead snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, as it was coiled in its natural Costal South Carolina environment. The Southern copperhead grows to a length 50cm to 95cm. Please see PHIL 10842 through 10851, for images depicting a juvenile A. contortrix.
Created: 2008
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Vertebrata (vertebrates)
- Gnathostomata (jawed fish)
- Osteichthyes
- Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned fishes)
- Tetrapoda (terrestrial vertebrates)
- Amniota
- Reptilia (Reptiles)
- Diapsida (diapsid)
- Lepidosauromorpha
- Squamata (lizards and snakes)
- Serpentes (snakes)
- Viperidae (vipers)
- Agkistrodon (Moccasins)
- Agkistrodon contortrix (Copperhead)
- Lepidosauriformes
- Reptiliomorpha
- Eureptilia
- Neodiapsida
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Source Information
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- cc-publicdomain
- photographer
- James Gathany
- provider
- Public Health Image Library
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