Synonymy

• Agkishodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799: 370 [typographical error]
• Scytale Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille, 1802: 158 [preoccupied by Scytale Gronovius, 1763]
  • Type species: Boa contortrix Linnaeus, 1766, by subsequent designation by Smith & Gloyd (1964: 281).
• Cenchris Daudin, 1803: 356
  • Type species: Cenchris mokeson Daudin, 1803, by monotypy.
• Scytalus Fischer, 1813: 59 [emendation of Scytale Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille, 1802]
• Tisiphone Fitzinger, 1826: 34 [preoccupied by Tisiphone Huebner, 1819]
  • Type species: Scytalus cupreus Rafinesque, 1818, by monotypy.
• Ancistrodon Wagler, 1830: 176 [emendation of Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799]
• Acontias Troost, 1836: 176 [preoccupied by Acontias Cuvier, 1817]
  • Type species: Acontias leucostoma Troost, 1836, by subsequent designation by Stejneger (1895: 401).
• Toxicophis Troost, 1836: 190 [substitute name for Acontias Troost, 1836]

Primary references

• Palisot de Beauvois, M. 1799. Memoir on Amphibia. Serpents. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4: 362–381. BHL Reference page. 

• Sonnini, C.-N.-S. & Latreille, P.-A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles, avec Figures Déssinnées d'après Nature. 4 volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4. Imprimerie de Crapelet, Chez Deterville libraire: Paris. Reference page. 

• Daudin, F.M. 1803. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles : ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome Cinquième. L'Imprimerie de F. Dufart: Paris. 365 pp. + plates LIX–LXX. BHL Reference page. 

• Fischer, G. 1813. Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata, in usum praelectionum Academiae Imperialis Medico-Chirurgicae Mosquensis edita. Editio Tertia. Volumen Primum. Nicolai Sergeidis Vsevolozsky: Mosquae [=Moscow]. Vol. 1. xiv + 465 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Fitzinger, L. 1826. Neue classification der reptilien nach ihren natürlichen verwandtschaften. Nebst einer verwandtschafts-tafel und einem verzeichnisse der reptilien-sammlung des K. K. zoologischen museum's zu Wien. J.G. Hübner: Wien. vii + 66 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Wagler, J.G. 1830. Natürliches System der Amphibien, mit vorangehender Classification der Säugetiere und Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung: München, Stuttgart, & Tübingen. 354 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Troost, G. 1836. On a new genus of serpents, and two new species of the genus Heterodon, inhabiting Tennessee. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 3: 174–190. BHL Reference page. 

• Smith, H.M. & Gloyd, H.K. 1964. Notes on the Snake Names Scytale, Boa scytale, and Agkistrodon mokasen. Herpetologica 19(4): 280–282. JSTOR Reference page. 

Additional references

• Gloyd, H.K. & Conant, R. 1990. Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex. A Monographic Review. Contributions to Herpetology No. 6. SSAR: Oxford, Ohio. vi + 614 pp. ISBN 9780916984205 Reference page. 

• Parkinson, C.L., Zamudio, K.R. & Greene, H.W. 2000. Phylogeography of the pitviper clade Agkistrodon: historical ecology, species status, and conservation of cantils. Molecular Ecology 9(4): 411–420. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2000.00854.x Reference page. 

• Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. 2 Volumes. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, New York. 1032 pp. ISBN 9780801441417 Reference page. 

• Douglas, M.E., Douglas, M.R., Schuett, G.W. & Porras, L.W. 2009. Global climate change and evolution of the New World pitviper genus Agkistrodon (Viperidae). Journal of Biogeography 36(6): 1164–1180. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02075.x 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. 

• Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Agkistrodon . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 22 July 2020.
• Agkistrodon – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).