{"id":2851,"date":"2026-06-20T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T16:15:12","slug":"western-striped-forest-pitviper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/viperidae\/western-striped-forest-pitviper\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Striped Forest Pitviper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of several <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/bothrops\/bilineatus\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"262\">Western Striped Forest Pitvipers<\/a> (<em>Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus<\/em>) we found in <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/peru\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"210\">Peru<\/a> earlier in the year. This was the largest of the group, found coiled in vines just overhead.<\/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\/Bothrops-bilineata-smaragdina-_4844-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bothrops-bilineata-smaragdina-_4844-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bothrops-bilineata-smaragdina-_4844-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bothrops-bilineata-smaragdina-_4844-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bothrops-bilineata-smaragdina-_4844-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bothrops-bilineata-smaragdina-_4844-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of several Western Striped Forest Pitvipers (Bothrops bilineatus smaragdinus) we found in Peru earlier in the year. This was the largest of the group, found coiled in vines just overhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262,207,139],"tags":[210,211],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bilineatus","category-bothrops","category-viperidae","tag-peru","tag-amazon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}