#1760 · 🦎 reptiles

Broad-banded Copperhead

Agkistrodon laticinctus

🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © johnwilliams · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © tomlott · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Mel Silvas · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © johnwilliams · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gerry Salmon · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Emily Powell · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Diana-Terry Hibbitts · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Agkistrodon laticinctus , commonly known as the broad-banded copperhead , is a venomous pit viper species, formerly considered a subspecies of Agkistrodon contortrix , which is found in the southern United States, from Kansas, through Oklahoma and throughout central Texas.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,892iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).