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Rosts, Dean
2005
Journal
Corr Jecan, Departamento Chimaltenango, Guatemala
Oct. 207 I arrived in Guatemala City yesterday with Ted Papenfuss,
and we met Gabriela Parra and Ernesto Pacorro at the
hotel. Later that day, we met Carlos Nasguy Almagay,
a student at the Universidad de San Carlos. We rented
a car and left this morning for Huehuetenango. We
drove north on the Panamericana to Jecan, where we
hoped to find Bolitoglossa rostrata and Psilohemys pex.
There was a road from the town of Jecan to some
antenna at the top of Corrs Jecan, which we drove up.
We parked at the top, about a 1hr drive up, and searched
in the open and forested areas for salamanders. We flipped
many rocks, dug into stumps and checked roadcuts
from 3-5PM but didn't find any. We did colled
Bulfo leocortti, Sceloporus smaragdinus, and Mesaspis
moraleti, which we took for Carlos' museum. The habitat
looked good for salamanders but was perhaps too dry,
according to Ted (GPS at top- 14.78276°N; 91.02343°W
[WGS 84, 25m acc], 3075m elev.). We drove down the
road and searched for about half an hour around 2900m.
The forest was rather disturbed here, but still had some big
trees. Gabriela found a juvenile B. morisi at 6PM under
the bark of a stump) and we found another M. moreleti
(14.78429°N; 91.01310°W [WGS 84, 10m acc], 2914m elev.).
We drove down in the dark and headed for Huehuetenango.
We planned to look for salamanders at night on