{"id":2265,"date":"2025-09-21T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2025-09-21T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T22:49:25","slug":"chihuahuan-hook-nosed-snake-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/chihuahuan-hook-nosed-snake-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Chihuahuan Hook-nosed Snake Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gyalopion-canum-_5997-Enhanced-NR-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gyalopion-canum-_5997-Enhanced-NR-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gyalopion-canum-_5997-Enhanced-NR-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gyalopion-canum-_5997-Enhanced-NR-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gyalopion-canum-_5997-Enhanced-NR-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gyalopion-canum-_5997-Enhanced-NR-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The face of a <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/colubridae\/gyalopion\/canum\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"554\">Chihuahuan Hook-nosed Snake<\/a>. These are small eaters of invertebrates. The subtle scoop on the end of the nose is helpful for finding prey in the sandy, grassland soil where they live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardy, L. M. (1976). <em>Gyalopion, G. canum, G. quadrangularis<\/em> (Unpublished manuscript). University of Texas. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/repositories.lib.utexas.edu\/bitstreams\/7425e5d2-4c40-4129-b736-a067e0a8d23b\/download\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/repositories.lib.utexas.edu\/bitstreams\/7425e5d2-4c40-4129-b736-a067e0a8d23b\/download\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parga, V. M. (2018). <em>Arthropod diets in Chihuahuan Desert snakes<\/em> (Unpublished master\u2019s thesis). University of Texas at El Paso.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The face of a Chihuahuan Hook-nosed Snake. These are small eaters of invertebrates. The subtle scoop on the end of the nose is helpful for finding prey in the sandy, grassland soil where they live. Hardy, L. M. (1976). Gyalopion, G. canum, G. quadrangularis (Unpublished manuscript). University of Texas. Retrieved from https:\/\/repositories.lib.utexas.edu\/bitstreams\/7425e5d2-4c40-4129-b736-a067e0a8d23b\/download\u00a0 Parga, V. M. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[554,141,553,135],"tags":[38,191,557,579,580],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canum","category-colubridae","category-gyalopion","category-snakes","tag-arizona","tag-cochise-county","tag-grassland","tag-nose","tag-rostral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}