{"id":2373,"date":"2025-11-11T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T13:30:53","slug":"cat-eyed-snakes-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/cat-eyed-snakes-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat-eyed Snakes of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A common sight around waterways south of the US are the cat-eyed snakes; mildly venomous, cat-eyed snakes (Leptodeira sp.<\/em>). However, they do make it into the country in one small area of extreme south Texas<\/a>. We found this Northern Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira<\/a> septentrionalis<\/em>) there several years ago. For friends in Arizona, these are most closely related to the nightsnakes (Hypsiglena<\/a> sp.<\/em>), both in form and lineage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vidal, N., Dewynter, M., & Gower, D. J. (2010). Dissecting the major American snake radiation: A molecular phylogeny of the Dipsadidae Bonaparte (Serpentes, Caenophidia). Comptes Rendus Biologies, 333(1), 48\u201355. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.crvi.2009.11.003<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A common sight around waterways south of the US are the cat-eyed snakes; mildly venomous, cat-eyed snakes (Leptodeira sp.). However, they do make it into the country in one small area of extreme south Texas. We found this Northern Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis) there several years ago. For friends in Arizona, these are most closely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,621,622,135],"tags":[188,620],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-leptodeira","category-septentrionalis","category-snakes","tag-texas","tag-cateyed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","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=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}