Field notes, v4227
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raits, Dean 2010 Journal Aug. 4 Rancho El Cielo and Ciudad del Maiz, Tamaulipas + San Luis Potosi, Mexico. We woke up today, and took photos of specimens, then packed and left. On the way down, we stopped at Cuera Marinada, a large cave along the road with a big opening in the drier low elevation forest. It was quite moist in some woods, and Jorg found a large Chiropterotriton on the cave wall near the entrance. It has a long tail and looks different than the others we got. We also saw 3 L. scemnding, spent ~20 min searching. We spent some time at CIF, then drove on towards Ciudad del Maiz. We stopped at the turnoff to Microondas Las Antenas S.L.P. and opened ~20 bromeliads from 18:45-20:00. We got 5 small Chiropterotriton multidentatus, 2 of which were in the same bromeliad. The habitat is oak forest with big bromeliads (with the wide-leaved kind and the paler green thin-leaved kind), with palms, mala mayor, and thorny understory plants; the area has a lot of limestone rocks and parts were cleared for cattle grazing. Jon found a Lepidophyma oculum under a rock (and saw 1 under a log), as well as an Aspidoscelis gularis under a log and 2 Sceloporus variegatus that were out foraging. I saw a big Crotalus totomacus that had been treed out and left out. Weather was warm/sunny all day. Spent night in Ciudad del Maiz. Aug. 5 Went back to the same site (other side of road) and searched for ~40 min. At a Breviculus molitor, Sceloporus variegatus, and a Rhinella gaigea, but found no Pseudowyeza (our goal). We're told that the microondas have fir forest, but we didn't have time to visit. Drove back towards Ciudad del Maiz, looking for P. cephalus site, just habitat seemed either too dry or very disturbed. Have up and drove back to O.F.