REPTILES OF THE WORLD
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| COMMON NAME | SCIENTIFIC NAME | DISTRIBUTION |
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| EASTERN COPPERHEAD (includes snakes previously known as Southern Copperheads and Northern Copperheads) |
Agkistrodon contortrix (includes snakes that were called A. c. contortrix and A. c. mokasen ) | USA:- Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts Delaware. |
| WESTERN COPPERHEAD or Broad-banded copperhead (Includes snakes known as Trans-Pecos Copperheads and Osage Copperheads) |
Agkistrodon laticinctus(includes snakes that were called A. c. laticinctus, A. c. pictigaster and A. c. contortrix) | USA:- Texas, Oklahoma. Mexico:- Chihuahua |
| Copperhead Hybrids | Hybrids occur where the species above meet. The intergrades/crosses may be infertile or parthenogenic |
USA:- Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas(Kansas River and Neosho River drainages) |
Pigmy Copperhead |
Austrelaps labialis |
Highlands Copperhead |
Austrelaps ramsayi |
Lowlands Copperhead |
Austrelaps superbus |
 
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