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R. Zweifel
1953
Journal
En route north from Mazatlan, Sinaloa
the canopy.
July 18
We left Mazatlan at 8:30 AM, heading north along the main highway
0.0 mi. Mazatlan (Pat Office)
11.7 mi. Stopped to look for bats in palm trees.
Found more - fronde (skirts) too sparse. Shot two Holbrookia maculata and Scleronyx clarki, the scelop on the trunk of a palm tree.
40.6 mi. Rio Piasla
48.9
52.8 mi. Rio Elota
74.0 mi. Lunch stop. Collected Cremidophorus sacki, Holbrookia maculata and Scleronyx clarki.
The cremils are the colorful spotted form.
Thorn forest.
136.6 Culiacan
166.1 End of pavement
166.5 Penico
228.9 Guamuchil
238.0 Camp for the evening. I walked the dirt roads by our campsite in the evening and found three Bufo mazatlanensis and a Bufo alvarius. The latter has not been recorded from Sinaloa previously. Also taken here were Uroanura ornatus and Cremidophorus sacki, the spotted, brightly colored type.