Field notes, v4224
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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