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Aug 27, 350
The Peña Blanca area is shown on
USGS Ruby Quadrangle surveyed
1939, edition of 1942. The Alamo
canyon locality mentioned in previous
notes as the unnamed canyon ex-
tending west from Peña Blanca spring,
Alamo Canyon in the SE corner of
the quadrangle.
Alamo canyon drains northward
into the Ysla River drainage while
Sycamore canyon waters eventually
reach the Rio Magdalena in Sonora.
True Rana tarahumarae occurs on
both sides of the divide.
The Rila which we collected in
Alamo Canyon looks different from
Rila ditamae of the Sycamore Canyon,
and may represent a different species,
being in another drainage.
From the description in Dr. Mellers'
paper on Rila (Copeia 1949, No. 2.) it
appears that the pool in Sycamore
canyon where we collected the R.
tarahumarae is the same one in which
he observed the Rila.