{"id":2818,"date":"2026-06-05T05:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:29:45","slug":"banded-rock-rattlesnake-with-a-green-tint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/banded-rock-rattlesnake-with-a-green-tint\/","title":{"rendered":"Banded Rock Rattlesnake with a Green Tint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/lepidus\/klauberi\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"162\">Banded Rock Rattlesnakes<\/a> are common in several of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/sky-islands\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"267\">sky islands<\/a> of southeastern Arizona. They&#8217;re smaller than most expect a rattlesnake to be, with most that I&#8217;ve encountered being less than two feet long. They&#8217;re also strongly sexually dimorphic, which is not common in rattlesnakes. Males, like this one, often develop bright, metallic greens on their bodies, which matches the common lichen found on rocks where they live. This one that we found was exceptional.<\/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-lepidus-klauberi-_3858150725-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_3858150725-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_3858150725-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_3858150725-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_3858150725-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_3858150725-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banded Rock Rattlesnakes are common in several of the sky islands of southeastern Arizona. They&#8217;re smaller than most expect a rattlesnake to be, with most that I&#8217;ve encountered being less than two feet long. They&#8217;re also strongly sexually dimorphic, which is not common in rattlesnakes. Males, like this one, often develop bright, metallic greens on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,162,161,135,139],"tags":[267,770],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-klauberi","category-lepidus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-sky-islands","tag-dimorphic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","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=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}