🐍Eastern copperhead
Kopparhuvud (Agkistrodon contortrix) är en giftorm i familjen huggormar som finns i Nordamerika. Fem underarter finns beskrivna, där Agkistrodon contortrix contotrix utgör nominatformen.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2007.
- Body mass
- 0.95 kg
- Body length
- 1.35 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 30 years
Everything we know about the Eastern copperhead
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.95 kgrecord 1.25 kg · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length1.35 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan30 yearsrecord 29 years · ReptTraitsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Gestation108 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Litter sizeabout 6AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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DietCarnivorousReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCathemeralReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Foraging modeAMBReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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VenomousYesReptTraitsDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Snout–vent length0.76 mmaximum recordedReptTraitsOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female0.66 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
- Male0.76 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l0.9 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Eastern copperhead yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classSquamata
- ›familyViperidae
- ›genusAgkistrodon
- ›speciesAgkistrodon contortrix
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- subfamilyCrotalinae
- genusAgkistrodon
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- superorderLepidosauria
- orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
- infraorderSnakes · Serpentes
- familyViperidae
- subfamilyCrotalinae
- genusAgkistrodon
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