Pinto, Dean 2006 Journal Aug. 28 Gordo Obtagel and Smith transect area, Depto. San Marcos, Guatemala. We spent the morning taking photos of salamanders in Buena Vista. The women there found one small B. maric for us. In the afternoon, we drove out of San Marcos, turned off RN1 at Pajapan, drove south through Jamil and then uphill towards the radar towers on Cerro Obtagel. We drove to the end of the road just below the towers and continued on foot. The area was largely corn fields but there were some open areas with rocks and brush that looked good for B. marictrata. We started searching at 1520 and Antonio immediately found a B. lineolus under a rock (14.70916°N, 91.81213°W [WGS84, 10m acc.], 3031m elev.). I continued uphill and found 1 B. lineolus under a dead agave in an open area and another slightly higher up in a stump in the forest. There was a lot of secondary forest further up the hill which looked good, but I found nothing more. I hiked all the way to the antennas on top of the hill, where there is a house. There was another open area that looked good for B. marictrata (3240m elev.) but I had little time to search there. I returned to find that the others had found 1 more B. lineolus and 2 Geophis godmani. We stopped searching at 1700 and returned to San Marcos for dinner. After dinner, we drove to the south transect by turning off at Pajapan from RN1, giving a short distance to a T-junction, and going right and passing the school. We searched the roadbank here from 2005-2125 and found 1 B. maric, 2 B. lineolus, and 4 B. franklini of franklini x lineolus hybrids (14.73616°N, 91.84349°W [WGS84, 9m acc.], 2475m elev.). All but the B. maric were in cracks in the only rocky area. We saw 2 more B. franklini and got a tail from one that was in a crack.