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Rantz, Dean
2010
Journal
Tapachula area, Chiapas, Mexico
July 11
Drive up the road to Finca Nueva Alemania, looking for older, sloped cafetal habitat. Started searching in cafetals under logs at 10:30 AM; searched in good habitat on edge of woods ~18 Km up road for 1 hr but found only Eleutherodactylus + Craugastor. Moved to a second site 17.1 Km from MX200 and searched for ~1hr, first in a cafetal and then in a road bank. I accidently killed an Ameiva in the road bank, which we collected. Moved on to some banana trees in overgrown habitat 14 Km from MX200. Got 2 B. occidentalis in there before emerging into more open cafetal habitat, parts of which appeared to have been cleared of large trees in recent years. There were tons of red bananas and many logs. Found 2 more B. occidentalis + an adult B. fleischeri (the object of our trip here), as well as a J. venulosus in bananas; saw many E. rubroacaluta, C. rhodophis, B. assatus, and Andis; also saw 1 Dinia solae, 2 H. diademata, 1 Aeghis + 1 Rhodinea (collected) under logs and 2 Sceloporus siniferus on logs. Got a large Mahya in a banana tree. It rained fairly hard for ~30 min during the afternoon, then intermittently. We went back (stopped searching at 15:50) to prepare specimens, planning to drive the road at night, but my car seemed to have problems + the check engine light went on. We decided to stay in because of this, not wanting to damage it if it was not working properly, despite some more rain in Tapachula in the evening.