{"id":3004,"date":"2026-09-11T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2026-09-11T12:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:34:01","slug":"female-banded-rock-rattlesnake-from-santa-cruz-county-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/female-banded-rock-rattlesnake-from-santa-cruz-county-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Banded Rock Rattlesnake From Santa Cruz County, Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A female <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/viperidae\/rattlesnakes\/lepidus\/klauberi\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"162\">Banded Rock Rattlesnake<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/huachuca\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"245\">Huachuca<\/a> Mountains in Arizona. These small rattlesnakes are sexually dimorphic, with males often showing metallic green coloration along the back. Females are usually more subdued in comparison, like this typical grey and black banded look. These are one of a handful of protected rattlesnake species in the state.<\/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-_0585-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_0585-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_0585-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_0585-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_0585-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Crotalus-lepidus-klauberi-_0585-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female Banded Rock Rattlesnake from the Huachuca Mountains in Arizona. These small rattlesnakes are sexually dimorphic, with males often showing metallic green coloration along the back. Females are usually more subdued in comparison, like this typical grey and black banded look. These are one of a handful of protected rattlesnake species in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3005,"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":[811,38,245,267,307],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnakes","category-klauberi","category-lepidus","category-snakes","category-viperidae","tag-dimorphism","tag-arizona","tag-huachuca","tag-sky-islands","tag-santa-cruz-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","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=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3006,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}