Field notes, v4226
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Costo, Sean 2007 Journal Corro Miramundo, Depto. Jalapa, Guatemala July 27 Fed Papenfues and I met Carlos Nasquez and two students, Lisa and Melissa, at Carlos' museum at 10:30 AM, after two hours spent arranging to take the rental car to Chiapas. We drove south on the Panamericana to Barahona, then through Casillas and Mataquescuintla to Corro Miramundo. We took a dirt road south from the main road before reaching the town of Miramundo and drove to a locked gate on the way to some microwave towers. We started searching here at 13:30. There were tons of big logs and stumps in grassy areas along the road, with decent-sized fragments of oak-pine-firewood past the cleared areas. This looks like the area near Pelay where we found salamanders in 2005. Many logs were rotten and moist inside, and seemed great for salamanders. I had no luck with salamanders, but the others got 4 B. maric-3 from stumps and 1 in a fallen bromeliad. We came here to get Pseudoeurycea expectata and were disappointed not to find any. We searched until 16:45 and got 6 Mesaspis moreletti, 85 Sceloporus melanochitius group, and 2 Peraps. (14.52789°N, 90.14494°W [WGS84; Fm acc.], 2604 m elev.). We then drove to the town of Miramundo and took a road S through some broccoli fields to an antenna with a small forest fragment near it; this is very near where P. expectata was found in the past. It got dark before we could search and we headed back. The day was partly cloudy and cool.