Water Moccasin

Water Moccasin The water moccasin, also known as moccasin snake, and cottonmouth (called this because when it is threatened it throws back its head and shows its white-lined mouth as a warning signal), swamp adder, gapper, trap jaw, water moccasin, and low land moccasin. Trap jaw, water moccasin, and cottonmouth are the more common names for it. Belonging to the family Viperidae, it is Agkistrodon piscivorus, phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family …

…be born at once are from eight to ten at one birth. Cottonmouth snakes are good at hiding. The cottonmouth snake's coloring helps them fit in and hide so they are not seen. Their camouflage helps them hunt for food and to hide from predators. The babies have better camouflage than the grown ups. The reason for this is because the babies are smaller so they are unseen in the under brush of the wetlands.