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Rovito, Dear
2008
Journal
Between Concepción Pápalos and Peña Narde, Sierra de Juarez,
Oaxaca, Mexico
Aug. 13 Juan Carlos Winhold Perez, Itzyque Casades (an undergrad student of Oscar Velles Flores) and I left Mexico City late yesterday and spent the night in Tehuacan. This morning we drove through Tuxtilla, to Cuicatlan and up into the northern part of the Sierra de Juarez. We passed through Concepción Pápalos and took the road to Peña Narde. We camped in a small clearing around the 2400m level and only started searching at 19:30.
We searched in rotten logs and under cover objects in a very nice cloud forest with big oak trees, some Hamboos and two big Bromeliads. I quickly found a juvenile Pseudoeurycea atlantica under the bark of a log, and we got about 4 more before it got dark. The salamanders are a dark brown-red color with orangish spots or an indistinct dorsal stripe. We continued to look with lights until 21:30, and found about 15 more for a total of 20. They were out on logs, vegetation and the forest floor, and we found a few at least 1m off the ground. These salamanders appear to be abundant, and I'm sure we could have found more if we had continued searching. Conditions seemed good - the forest was wet and the night was cool and cloudy, although it did not rain while we were there.