{"id":3020,"date":"2026-09-19T07:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2026-09-19T07:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:44:03","slug":"sonoran-lyresnake-in-yavapai-county-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/snakes\/sonoran-lyresnake-in-yavapai-county-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonoran Lyresnake in Yavapai County, Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We found this <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/snakes\/colubridae\/trimorphodon\/lambda\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"280\">Sonoran Lyresnake <\/a>on the move on a night hike in Yavapai County sevearl years back. This one is typical of the species for the area, with chaotic brown and tan blotches over a beige body, with a relatively disoganized look compared to some of the more cleanly banded version found elsewhere. They&#8217;re slightly venomous, feeding on lizards, rodents, and bats. It&#8217;s not harmful to humans, but I still avoid a bite like I would from any snake.<\/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\/Trimorphodon-lambda_O4A7523-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trimorphodon-lambda_O4A7523-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trimorphodon-lambda_O4A7523-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trimorphodon-lambda_O4A7523-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trimorphodon-lambda_O4A7523-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Trimorphodon-lambda_O4A7523-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Devitt, T. J. (2006). Phylogeography of the Western Lyresnake (Trimorphodon biscutatus): Testing aridland biogeographical hypotheses across the Nearctic\u2013Neotropical transition. Molecular Ecology, 15, 4387\u20134407. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1365-294X.2006.03015.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1365-294X.2006.03015.x<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mackessy, S. P., &amp; Saviola, A. J. (2016). Understanding biological roles of venoms among the Caenophidia: The importance of rear-fanged snakes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 56(5), 1004\u20131012. <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/icb\/article\/56\/5\/1004\/2420638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/icb\/article\/56\/5\/1004\/2420638<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found this Sonoran Lyresnake on the move on a night hike in Yavapai County sevearl years back. This one is typical of the species for the area, with chaotic brown and tan blotches over a beige body, with a relatively disoganized look compared to some of the more cleanly banded version found elsewhere. They&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,280,135,279],"tags":[38,402,457],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colubridae","category-lambda","category-snakes","category-trimorphodon","tag-arizona","tag-venomous","tag-yavapai-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}