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Wilafa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons / https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Copperhead_%28Agkis…IMAGE INFORMATION

A Copper head, from the Schuylkill county, Penna.

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 8, 1814

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 73

Specimen Type:

Dead/preserved

Current Common Name:

Eastern copperhead

Current Scientific Name

Agkistrodon contortrix