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ints, Dear
2010
Journal
Oct. 16 Sierra de Alvarado, San Luis Potosi, Mexico (cont)
I drove to Valle de los Fantasmas and got a boy (Hector) to take
me to a cave we failed to find on our last trip (Cueva del
Moderno: 22.07183 N, 100.61466 W [±10m], 2297m elev.). The
cave entrance is a big hole in a sunken area surrounded by oak
trees and pasture. We quickly found 3 Chiropterotriton
multidentatus crawling on the cave walls very close to the entrance.
The cave goes back ~15m and then has several passages that drop
sharply down and appear quite deep; I did not explore further
and I think caving equipment would be necessary. Although
this was the wettest cave I entered today, the areas where the
salamanders were found were not actually wet. These animals
(particularly the 2 smaller ones) remind me of the Chirops we
collected E of Ciudad del Mai. I spent the night at the
Hotel Napoles (expensive, just OK) in San Luis Potosi.
Oct. 16 El Chico National Park, Hidalgo, Mexico
After a leisurely morning in San Luis Potosi, I drove to Pachuca and
up to El Chico National Park. I stopped 4km S (by rd) of Mineral
del Chico; searched in rotting logs and rotting woodpiles in a mossy
fir forest from 16:30-18:00. Got a small Chiropterotriton diminutulus
from inside a rotting log. Conditions were fairly moist and forest
seemed in good shape. At night, searched along mossy and rocky
roadbank from 19:30-20:40 and got 3 Iberoelytrura cephalica,
all of which were out on the mossy bank. The day was clear
and cool and it got fairly cold at night. Please home to DF.