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Novo, Dec
2005
Journal
Coxaque and Ojo de Agua, near San Marcos, Dept.
San Marcos, Guatemala (ext.)
Nov. 4 ... the top of the hill; he had caught a M. morotele' and a
B. linckii (somewhere on the way up). We sat down for somebody
at the top
and looked on the ground for over 30min but found no more
salamanders, cl dug up a large rotten stump and found a
juvenile Ceratidium godmani', which cl foolishly picked up since
cI couldn't see its head and didn't know what it was (GPS
at top of hill where snake found - 14.98334°N, 91.82793°W
[WS84, 10m acc.], 3100m elev.). We walked back down the
way we had come up in a light rain and found Ernesto, who
had more salamanders. Altogether, we found 10 B. linckii's,
7 B. moros' and 3 M. morotele'. We ate lunch and drove back
to the highway and then on a smaller road to an area west of
the town of Ojo de Agua, where Ted and Dave had found a contact
zone where B. franklini and B. linckii hybridized. We worked
a roadbank for about half an hour in the rain - cl found a
juvenile B. moros' and Ernesto found another [illegible] under a stone
(14.92371°N, 91.81882°W [WS84, 8m acc.], 2587m elev.).
We decided to stop and return at night. We drove back to the
woman's house who had promised to look for salamanders for us, but
they hadn't found any. The boy across the street had found 2
B. linckii' and 1 B. franklini'; he said he had found them nearby
in trunks and under stones (GPS in town of Buena Vista where he
lived - 14.94129°N, 91.85331°W [WS84, 10m acc.], 2430m elev.).
We drove back to Ojo de Agua after [illegible] dark and Ernesto