
Agkistrodon is a genus of pit vipers commonly known as American moccasins. The genus is endemic to North America, ranging from the northeastern United States to northern Costa Rica. Eight species are recognized as being valid, all of them monotypic and closely related. Common names include: cottonmouths, copperheads, and cantils.
Eastern Copperhead
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Die Dreieckskopfottern (Agkistrodon) sind eine mit vier Arten in Nord- und Mittelamerika verbreitete Schlangengattung aus der Unterfamilie der Grubenottern (Crotalinae). Sie werden im Deutschen auch als Mokassinottern oder Mokassinschlangen bezeichnet.
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Agkistrodon is a genus of pit vipers commonly known as American moccasins. The genus is endemic to North America, ranging from the northeastern United States to northern Costa Rica. Eight species are recognized as being valid, all of them monotypic and closely related. Common names include: cottonmouths, copperheads, and cantils.
==Name origin== The name Agkistrodon comes from the Greek words (, 'fishhook', with the irregular transliteration gk rather than the usual nk) and () 'tooth' and is likely a reference to the fangs.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).