Field notes, v4224
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Haiti, Sean 2005 Journal San Ramon and Chiblac, E of Barrillas, Depto. Huehuetenango, Guatemala (cont) Oct. 29 ... We left Emilio's house and walked up the road out of town, checking banana trees and mossy areas in people's yards along the way. We found 2 B. surfcensa under banana leaves, and Carlos found a big, beautiful B. mulleri in a banana tree (15°86'44.9"N, 91.216°81"W LWGS 84, 11m acc.), 766m elev.). (The elev. seems wrong from this locality). We showed the photos to some people, who at first said they knew B. jacksoni, but then decided that they had actually seen B. mulleri after seeing the live salamander. Emilio still seemed sure that he had in fact seen B. jacksoni. We left him at his house and he said he would take us to some forest tomorrow. We drove back to Buenos Aires, where a mob of kids with horns awaited us. They had collected 14 leptodophyme [we ended up keeping 10], 1 Euphonemorphus, and 1 B. Dulfssana. Ted paid Q2 for each animal. The center of town is at 15°53'15.0"N, 91°14'50.5"W, 944m elev.- I don't know exactly where the animals were collected. We explained the difference between a lizard and a salamander and told them to try again. We drove back toward Barrillas and stopped at a road cut about 12Km N of Barrillas. We searched with headlamps along the roadcut, which was mostly rock and didn't look very good for salamanders. Ernesto found 2 Eleutherodactylus sucandeli (15°49'39.0"N, 91°15'8.4"W, 1378 m elev.), and the rest of us found nothing. We drove back to Barrillas and ate at the Restaurante Villa Cafe.