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Parits, Sean
2008
Journal
June 2
Cerro Miramundo, Aepio, Jalapa, Guatemala
We spent the morning in Antigua with Augusto. We then picked up Carlos around 17:00 and drove back to Cerro Miramundo in a heavy rain. We started searching in the same area of oak forest past the entrance that we searched yesterday. Visibility was minimal and we never quite got to the best spot we saw yesterday, but we searched in good areas with big oak trees from 19:30-22:00. Carlos, Augusto and I stayed together and collected 13 B. moirai between us (I also saw 1 more), mostly on the trunks of big oak trees but also on smaller trees and big leaves.
The B. moirae here are more brown in color than elsewhere and have orange-red spots on the sides of the body and underside of the tail, sort of like the salamanders we got at the Albores calima in the Sierra de las Minas. We met Ted, who got separated from us and found nothing, back at the car. Although conditions seemed great for salamanders with the rain and mist (which has now continued for several days without much pause), we saw no I. expectata. I fear that this species may be extinct.