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Porto, Spain
2008
Journal
March 21
Juxtla Amierrey to Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico
We arrived in Juxtla Amierrey at 13:00 after a long overnight flight. Waited a long time for the rental car and got a truck with no 4WD, since they hadn't kept the car we wanted, which apparently wasn't 4WD either. We drove through San Cristóbal and south to Comitán. We stopped at the Laguna Chamula microwave tower, ~2 km W of the highway between San Cristóbal and Comitán. We continued just past the towers and spent ~30 min opening bromeliads before it got dark. We opened about 10-12 bromeliads, which were rather dry inside, and I found a small green hydrid in the first one I opened. We spent the night in Comitán.
Laguna de Montebello, Chiapas, Mexico
March 22 We drove to Parque Nacional Laguna de Montebello and continued ~0.5 km on the road to Fajscos, where we turned right onto a good dirt road. We stopped a short distance down the road and began to open bromeliads in a pine-oak forest with lots of vines and a scrubby understory (presumably secondary forest). I quickly got a juvenile salamander with fully webbed feet and a speckled ventral - it looks to be either B. hartwegi or the elusive B. stuarti! We searched from 10:30-12:50 and got a total of 2 adult males and 7 juveniles, all in bromeliads. They really look like B. hartwegi to me, but I have I'ded 2 salamanders from here in the FROSUR collection as stuarti. The adults have some red-brown areas at the base of the tail, and several of the