{"id":2530,"date":"2026-02-03T06:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:43:57","slug":"arizona-ridgenosed-rattlesnake-in-habitat-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/arizona-ridgenosed-rattlesnake-in-habitat-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnake in Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/willardi\/willardi-willardi\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"164\">Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnake<\/a> in southeastern Arizona. These small rattlesnakes are found in bunchgrass and oak leaf litter at elevations above around 4,500&#8242;. Though they may be locally abundant, most of the long-term locals asked in the area about them have no idea it exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4663150815-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4663150815-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4663150815-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4663150815-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4663150815-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-willardi-willardi-_4663150815-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Buontempo, M. J. (2024). <em>Evolutionary history of a specialized and diverse highland snake complex (Crotalus willardi)<\/em> (Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso). https:\/\/scholarworks.utep.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=5226&amp;context=open_etd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona Ridgenosed Rattlesnake in southeastern Arizona. These small rattlesnakes are found in bunchgrass and oak leaf litter at elevations above around 4,500&#8242;. Though they may be locally abundant, most of the long-term locals asked in the area about them have no idea it exists. Buontempo, M. J. (2024). Evolutionary history of a specialized and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,135,139,163,164],"tags":[38,267,562],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-snakes","category-viperidae","category-willardi","category-willardi-willardi","tag-arizona","tag-sky-islands","tag-montane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}