Common Names
This is a list of common names for Agkistrodon piscivorus, some of which also refer to other species:
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Catesby (1743) referred to it as the "water viper", while Lacépède (1789) called it le piscivore. The first appearance of "water moccasin" and "cotton mouth" was in Holbrook's North American Herpetology (1838, 1842).
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