{"id":2980,"date":"2026-09-02T07:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2026-09-02T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:25:08","slug":"a-colorful-longnosed-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/a-colorful-longnosed-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"A Colorful Longnosed Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found this <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/colubridae\/rhinocheilus\/lecontei\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"724\">Longnosed Snake<\/a> (<em>Rhinocheilus lecontei<\/em>) near Phoenix many years ago. Interestingly, this species is most often mistaken for a kingsnake by locals, even (especially!) by those who identify strongly as &#8220;born and raised here.&#8221; It&#8217;s likely the case that the majority of &#8220;kingsnakes&#8221; seen by the typical Arizona resident are actually Longnosed Snakes. This one has a particularly high amount of the red-orange color that can help differentiate it from similar looking species, making it a bit easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a video we made that helps learn to identify them compared to kingsnakes: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ysE-MLzu_9Y?si=9CPYtboddxjz50Rg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ysE-MLzu_9Y?si=9CPYtboddxjz50Rg<\/a><\/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\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei_4805-1-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei_4805-1-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei_4805-1-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei_4805-1-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei_4805-1-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rhinocheilus-lecontei_4805-1-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this Longnosed Snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei) near Phoenix many years ago. Interestingly, this species is most often mistaken for a kingsnake by locals, even (especially!) by those who identify strongly as &#8220;born and raised here.&#8221; It&#8217;s likely the case that the majority of &#8220;kingsnakes&#8221; seen by the typical Arizona resident are actually Longnosed Snakes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,724,168,135],"tags":[357,804,97],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-lecontei","category-rhinocheilus","category-snakes","tag-misidentification","tag-longnosed","tag-kingsnake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","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=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}