{"id":2574,"date":"2026-02-14T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:30:53","slug":"speckled-racer-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/speckled-racer-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Speckled Racer in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/colubridae\/drymobius\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"703\">Speckled Racer<\/a> (<em>Drymobius margaritiferus<\/em>) from a visit to South <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/texas\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"188\">Texas<\/a> last year. This species is found throughout Central America and just a bit into South America, ranging north to just barely enter the United States.<\/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\/Drymobius-margaritiferus-_3062-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus-_3062-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus-_3062-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus-_3062-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus-_3062-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Drymobius-margaritiferus-_3062-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Speckled Racer (Drymobius margaritiferus) from a visit to South Texas last year. This species is found throughout Central America and just a bit into South America, ranging north to just barely enter the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,703,704,135],"tags":[188,705],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-drymobius","category-margaritiferus","category-snakes","tag-texas","tag-central-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}