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Ronto, Bear
2006
Journal
Volcan Chicalal and Volcan Siote Orejos, Depto.
Izuetaltenango, Guatemala (cont.)
Aug. 27 ... to walk around the lake, flipping and opening logs and
flipping the few rocks we saw. The forest was in great
condition and there were many big trees with some bromeliads
(which we didn't open) and a lot of bamboo. Conditions seemed
perfect, but we found nothing from 1130-1300. Antonio's
finally found an adult Pseudoeurycea [illegible]
under the trunk
of a big log on the far side of the lake (14.78755°N,
91.65855°W [WGS84, 19m acc.], 2722m elev.). We searched
until about 1500, with a 40 min lunch break but found nothing
more. We searched in many excellent logs and CL was surprised
not to see more salamanders. We walked back to the car
and drove through Izuetaltenango and up to the radio
towers on Volcan Siote Orejos. We searched in the open
areas and cypress plantation/secondary forest at the top
for ~40 min in a cold rain but found nothing (14.79280°N,
91.58773°W [WGS84, 6m acc.], 3104m elev.). There were some
stumps to look in and the habitat looked OK. We drove down
to ~2500m and searched for ~20 min but found nothing,
and the habitat looked good. We drove to Xela, had dinner,
and returned to San Marcos. Dave, Marshall and Ted
had found 1 B. morio at Las Tules, but said the forest was
gone. They found a P. dieg under a clump of mud in forest,
1 B. morio in a stump under trunk and a B. rzedowskii in a
roadbank at Km 232.6 on the road from San Juan
Ostuncalco to Palestina de los Altos.