{"id":2672,"date":"2026-03-22T15:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T22:54:34","slug":"black-tailed-horned-viper-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/black-tailed-horned-viper-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Tailed Horned Viper in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A cool little viper with horn-like scales above the eyes. That&#8217;s a common thing with arboreal vipers in <a href=\"http:\/\/Mexico\">Central<\/a> and South America, but vipers with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/horns\">horns<\/a>&#8221; are relatively few in comparison. They&#8217;re closely related to other montane vipers in the area that have similar structures, but live more familiar lives in steep, heavily vegetated forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few hours of careful scouring of perfect habitat turned up none of these. Then after having more or less given up, I decided to flip some rocks near the cars while we waited for the crew to reassemble &#8230; and poof: the target. It&#8217;s fun when that happens.<\/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\/Mixcoatlus-melanurus_2985-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mixcoatlus-melanurus_2985-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mixcoatlus-melanurus_2985-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mixcoatlus-melanurus_2985-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mixcoatlus-melanurus_2985-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mixcoatlus-melanurus_2985-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cool little viper with horn-like scales above the eyes. That&#8217;s a common thing with arboreal vipers in Central and South America, but vipers with &#8220;horns&#8221; are relatively few in comparison. They&#8217;re closely related to other montane vipers in the area that have similar structures, but live more familiar lives in steep, heavily vegetated forests. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[736,735,135,139],"tags":[171,312,737],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melanurus","category-mixcoatlus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-mexico","tag-veracruz","tag-horns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","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=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}