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Rivito, Sean
2008
Journal
May 27 ... place to work with a group if we come back. I immediately found a colorful snake with a yellow ventr in front of the cabins under a log. We spent the afternoon from ~15:15-18:00 walking SW from the cabins on 2 trails. The broadleaf cloud forest is absolutely beautiful, with huge trees, tree ferns, and tons of epiphytes. There is also a lot of bamboo in some areas. We searched in bromeliads and logs, but the bromeliads were very full of water. Carlos found a dark juvenile Bolitoglossa inside a small rotten log (15.08439°N, 89.94557°W [WGS84; 15m acc], 2470m elev), but we found nothing else. I found a Mesaspis moreletii near the cabins on the way back.
After dinner, we searched from about 19:25-21:00 on the same two trails and the road. I found a juvenile black Bolitoglossa coming out of a bromeliad on the ground, just below the cabins. Carlos and Ted found a big adult with light blotches on the sides and tail and light speckles on the dorsum, as well as another juvenile (15.08242°N, 89.94628°W [WGS84; 7m acc], 2486 meter). Both were out foraging, and appear to be the same as the other salamanders. We walked back along the road and found 2 Craugastor of one species with white spots on the nose and 10 Craugastor so (maybe not all the same). We did well although the weather was somewhat dry.