| Northern copperhead snake
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Chordata
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| Class:
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Reptilia
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| Order:
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Squamata
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| Suborder:
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Serpentes
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| Family:
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Viperidae
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| Genus:
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Agkistrodon
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| Species:
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| Subspecies:
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A. c. mokasen
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| Trinomial name
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Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen
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| Synonyms[1]
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- Agkistrodon mokason
Palisot de Beauvois, 1799
- Agkishodon mokasen
Palisot de Beauvois, 1799
- Cenchris mokeson Daudin, 1803
- Scytale mockeson Say, 1819
- Agkistrodon mokasen – Beyer, 1898
- Ancistrodon mokasen – Brown, 1908
- Agkistrodon mokasen mokasen
– Gloyd & Conant, 1934
- Agkistrodon mokeson mokeson
– Gloyd & Conant, 1943
- Agkistrodon mokeson
– Davis & Brimley, 1944
- Agkistrodon contortrix mokeson
– Klauber, 1948
- Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen
– Klimstra, 1950
- Ancistrodon contortrix mokeson
– Schmidt, 1953
- Agkistrodon contortrix makasen Bonn & McCarley, 1953
- Ancistrodon contortrix mokasen
– Petersen, 1970
- Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen
– Harding & Welch, 1980
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The northern copperhead snake (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen) is a subspecies of the copperhead snake. It is found in the eastern United States.[2]
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