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This image depicts a dorsal view of a coiled, southern copperhead snake, Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix. A venomous reptile, the southern copperhead is a denizen of the pine and deciduous forests of southeastern United States, and perhaps one of the best known, and widest ranging copperhead subspecies. See PHIL 8130, for another view of this species.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Harold George Scott, PhD
Creation Date: 1963
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