Agkistrodon laticinctus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Familia: Viperidae
Subfamilia: Crotalinae
Genus: Agkistrodon
Species:

Agkistrodon laticinctus (Gloyd & Conat, 1934)

Holotype: UMMZ 75599, adult ♂, collected by W.A. Bevan and R.F. Harvey in October 1933.
Type species: “26 miles northwest of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas”.

Agkistrodon mokasen laticinctus — Gloyd & Conant, 1943: 156 [original combination]
Agkistrodon laticinctus — Burbrink & Guiher, 2015: 17 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

Gloyd, H.K. & Conant, R. 1934. The broad-banded copperhead, a new subspecies of Agkistrodon mokasen. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 283: 1–6. hdl: 2027.42/56722 Reference page.
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.