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Agkistrodon piscivorus (conanti)

Synonyms: Acontias leucostoma; Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma; Crotalus piscivorus

Wikipedia Abstract

Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma is a venomous pit viper subspecies found in the south central United States. It is the smallest of the three subspecies and tends to be darker in color.
View Wikipedia Record: Agkistrodon piscivorus

Attributes

Hibernates [1]  Yes
Litter Size [3]  8
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  25 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Venomous [4]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools, Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  3.748 lbs (1.70 kg)
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [2]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
Atlantic Coastal Plain Bald-cypress - Water Tupelo Blackwater Small Stream Swamp Forest United States (North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia)
Bald-cypress - Tupelo Brownwater Floodplain Forest United States (North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, Alabama)
Bald-cypress - Water Tupelo Floodplain Forest United States (Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi)
Bald-cypress Floodplain Forest United States (Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Missouri, Texas)
Central Interior Buttonbush Pond United States (Kentucky, Oklahoma, Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, West Virginia, Illinois, Ohio, Arkansas, Tennessee)
Fraxinus pennsylvanica - Ulmus crassifolia - Celtis laevigata Floodplain Forest United States (Oklahoma, Arkansas)
Maple - Ash - Elm Swamp Canada (Ontario); United States (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan)
Midwest Mixed Emergent Deep Marsh Canada (Ontario); United States (Missouri, Tennessee, Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Nebraska, North Dakota, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin)
Midwestern Cottonwood - Black Willow - Silver Maple Floodplain Forest United States (Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana)
Mississippi River Red Maple - Water-locust Bottomland Forest United States (Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas)
Overcup Oak - Sweetgum Bottomland Forest United States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana)
Pin Oak - Post Oak Lowland Flatwoods United States (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas)
Pond-cypress / Myrtle Dahoon Depression Forest United States (Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida)
Silver Maple - Sugarberry - Pecan Floodplain Forest United States (Tennessee, Illinois, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana)
Southeast Coastal Plain Buttonbush Pond United States (Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia)
Southern Green Ash - Elm - Sugarberry Floodplain Forest United States (Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama)
Swamp Chestnut Oak - Sweetgum Floodplain Forest United States (Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Illinois)
Water Tupelo Swamp Forest United States (Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia)
Willow Oak Bottomland Flatwoods Forest United States (Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas)

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Agkistrodon piscivorus (conanti)[5]
Alligator mississippiensis (Alligator, Gator, American alligator, Florida alligator, Mississippi alligator, Louisiana alligator.)[8]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Venomous snakes and antivenoms search interface, World Health Organization
♦ 5Sexual dimorphism in head shape and diet in the cottonmouth snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus), Shawn E. Vincent, Anthony Herrel and Duncan J. Irschick, J. Zool., Lond. (2004) 264, 53–59
♦ 6Baiomys taylori, Bruce D. Eshelman and Guy N. Cameron, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 285, pp. 1-7 (1987)
♦ 7Blarina carolinensis, Timothy S. McCay, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 673, pp. 1–7 (2001)
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Oryzomys palustris, James L. Wolfe, Mammalian Species No. 176, pp. 1-5 (1982)
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0