Field notes, v4226
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Roxto, Sean 2008 Journal Roxto, Roys. Islas de la Bahia, Honduras Jan. 12 Fed insisted on coming out to Roxto to get the Phylloactulus that is endemic to the Bay islands. I wanted to keep looking for salamanders, but eventually agreed to go. We drove from Rigo de Moya to La Ceiba yesterday and took the 4:30PM ferry to Roxto. Today we caught some Anolis (just 1), but saw many near the Dawson's Rock housing development E of West End. We also tried to trap Ilyachy in some small ponds near a hotel called Hobbie's Hideaway, where I saw either Bana or Leptodactylus and heard a hylid! We didn't get any turtles but we did catch 2 water snakes in the traps. Just after dark, we walked along the rock wall at the Dawson's Rock housing development for ~45min and got 3 Phyllodactylus palmeus, 1 Hemidactylus, 1 Sphaerodactylus and 1 Basiliscus givento. CURLA research station La Ceiba, Roys. Atlantida, Honduras Jan. 13 We took the 7AM ferry from Roxto to La Ceiba and drove to a field campus of CURLA (an agricultural research institute, I think) on the western outskirts of La Ceiba. We walked towards the hills from the guard station at the administration building, crossed a privetel and then walked along a dirt road between a thin patch of dry forest and cattle pasture. There were large spiny hornebillads in trees and on fenceposts. We spent a few and I got a Smilica bandinii in one and a big adult B. mexicana from the base of a clump of