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<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEB2F7DFCC7A615FB7FB077" box="[860,1160,1812,1833]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="521">AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS</emphasis>
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(
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<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEB2F7DFCBDA63BFBDDB01F" box="[806,1066,1850,1871]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="521">Northern Cottonmouth</emphasis>
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:
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Unknown.
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<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEA2F7CFF3FA1C7FECFB78B" box="[164,312,198,219]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">Type locality:</emphasis>
Carolina (
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), restricted to Charleston, SC, by
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.
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<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEA2F7CFF3FA02DFED3B611" box="[164,292,300,321]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">Etymology:</emphasis>
Specific epithet refers to dietary habit, derived from Latin
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and
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, translated as fish and to devour, respectively.
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<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEA2F7CFF3FA0B0FED7B696" box="[164,288,433,454]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">Synonymy:</emphasis>
This species comprises the previously recognized subspecies
<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEA2F7CFEECA0CEFE5EB6B5" box="[375,425,463,485]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">A. p.</emphasis>
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(
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and
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(
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).
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<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEA2F7CFF3FA337FEECB51B" box="[164,283,566,587]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">Diagnosis:</emphasis>
Combining characteristics for the subspecies
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and
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, we provide a diagnosis for
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. The Northern Cottonmouth (
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<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEA2F7CFDE2A390FCF5B5F6" box="[633,770,657,678]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">A. piscivorus</emphasis>
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) is a medium- to large-bodied semi-aquatic pit viper with an average adult size of
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and a maximum size of
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(
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;
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), with a ratio of tail to total length of
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males and
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females. They possess a single anal plate, keeled dorsal scales and typically 25 midbody scale rows (range 2327;
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). Subcaudals range from
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males and from
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females, whereas ventral scales number 128142 with no variation between sexes (
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). Supralabials and infralabials range from 6 to 10 (mode 8) and 8 to 12 (mode 11), respectively and total postoculars + suboculars range from 1 to 4 (mode 3;
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). A combination of geography and colour pattern distinguishes the Northern Cottonmouth from the Florida Cottonmouth. There are 1017 dark cross-bands on an olive, brown or black background, whereas
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features 1116 crossbands. Crossbands in
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are often indistinguishable from the ground colour in adults, yet may be prominent or subdued in adult
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<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEA2F7CFDBFA415FD63B279" box="[548,660,1300,1321]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">A. conanti</emphasis>
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. The head is typically black or brown, lacking vertical rostral stripes; a dark cheek stripe is present in juveniles but may be subdued or indistinguishable from the ground colour in adults yet often present in adult
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(
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). The Northern Cottonmouth occupies lower elevations throughout the south-eastern
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from south-eastern
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to central
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, east of the Appalachian Mountains, north to southern
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and eastern
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, south into central
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in the west, whereas the
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cottonmouth (
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<emphasis id="E3D32D58FFEA2F7CFE25A765FDDCB129" box="[446,555,1636,1657]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">A. conanti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) ranges from southern
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to approximately Savannah
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, and west to south-eastern
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(
<figureCitation id="499CEDCFFFEA2F7CFDBFA7A0FD8EB1E7" box="[548,633,1697,1719]" captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="15.[164,243,1643,1662]" captionTargetBox="[370,1282,208,1613]" captionTargetId="figure-1@15.[370,1282,208,1613]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 5. The distribution of species within the Agkistrodon contortrix complex (A) and Agkistrodon piscivorus complex (B) inferred by Bayesian species delimitation. Putative hybrids zones are identified with cross-hatches. Distributions are adapted from Gloyd &amp; Conant (1990) and the results from ecological niche modelling." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5334722" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5334722/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">Fig. 5B</figureCitation>
). Hybridization with the
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Cottonmouth occurs in the mid- Atlantic coastal plains in southern
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to the southern coastal plains in south-eastern
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and diagnosis may be difficult for some individuals in this area without additional morphological and molecular data (
<figureCitation id="499CEDCFFFEA2F7CFEF8A659FE4FB03E" box="[355,440,1880,1902]" captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="15.[164,243,1643,1662]" captionTargetBox="[370,1282,208,1613]" captionTargetId="figure-1@15.[370,1282,208,1613]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figure 5. The distribution of species within the Agkistrodon contortrix complex (A) and Agkistrodon piscivorus complex (B) inferred by Bayesian species delimitation. Putative hybrids zones are identified with cross-hatches. Distributions are adapted from Gloyd &amp; Conant (1990) and the results from ecological niche modelling." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5334722" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5334722/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="522">Fig. 5B</figureCitation>
).
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