{"id":2701,"date":"2026-04-02T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:40:17","slug":"eurasian-worm-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/international-field-herping\/eurasian-worm-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurasian Worm Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Eurasian Worm Snake (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/leptotyphlopidae\/xerotyphlops\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"746\">Xerotyphlops vermicularis<\/a><\/em>) we found in <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/greece\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"184\">Greece<\/a> a few years ago. Convergently, they&#8217;re very much like our more familiar threadsnakes in the southwestern US, though a bit thicker and easier to find. Just like ours, too, they&#8217;re about impossible to get a decent photograph.<\/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\/Xerotyphlops-vermicularis-_0246-Edit-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xerotyphlops-vermicularis-_0246-Edit-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xerotyphlops-vermicularis-_0246-Edit-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xerotyphlops-vermicularis-_0246-Edit-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xerotyphlops-vermicularis-_0246-Edit-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xerotyphlops-vermicularis-_0246-Edit-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Eurasian Worm Snake (Xerotyphlops vermicularis) we found in Greece a few years ago. Convergently, they&#8217;re very much like our more familiar threadsnakes in the southwestern US, though a bit thicker and easier to find. Just like ours, too, they&#8217;re about impossible to get a decent photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,142,135,747,746],"tags":[184,495],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-field-herping","category-leptotyphlopidae","category-snakes","category-vermicularis","category-xerotyphlops","tag-greece","tag-convergent-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","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=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}