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Rats, Dear
2008
Journal
May 30
La Union, Depts. Zacapa, Guatemala (cont.)
... brown spot on the dorsal hind the legs (sacrum) on a dark
brown (maybe a chocolate brown) background. There are also light
brown areas behind the eyes and along the dorsal surface of
the inner part of the legs. There is some gular mottling of a pale
color on the gray base, but less than in C. versipeles. The sides
also have many specks of a pale color, while the venter is
uniformly dark. There is a rather indistinct light brown dorsal
stripe that extends from behind the front legs to just before the
hind limbs. Ted and Jacobo didn't find anything. We left
to eat churrasco in big flour tortillas (delicious!) in La Union
and picked up some Enystomops and Amlusca calling from
ditches along the road just below La Union. Our experience today
makes me think that maybe C. mangan is not a bromeliad
specialist, as we thought, and that it may pass the dry season
underground and had now come out due to sustained rains.
We saw a mouse opossum driving back down to La Union as well.
This site seems like a very important one to conserve, and
the forest is still in good shape.