Ronto, Dean 2009 Journal Aug. 27 Kukera Hill, RAAS, Nicaragua We went down to the first lock in town and looked in a small area of green bananas behind the restaurant next to the panga dock for ~30 min. The bananas were OK but small and not numerous. Collected 2 Hemidactylus at dock. Javier and I walked back to the hotel, stopping in people's yards to check in their banana trees, searching for 30-40 min total. Javier found a big Frochophalus semilatus, a juvenile Smilisca baudinii and a Hphaerodactylus milipunctatus. We ate lunch, hired a taxi and drove out with a kid, Berto, whose father, Dionisio Blandón Romero, owns a finca. It was at the base of Kukera Hill, the type locality of Bolitoglossa striatula, about 1.5 km by air W of the town of Kukera Hill. We started searching in red banana plants at 13:30, then switched to green bananas (almost all were green except perhaps 10-15). We looked under leaves on the bananas, in banana leaf litter and under the abundant banana logs. Javier and Denis found a Tinia selae and an Anguis lemnifrons, and a juv. B. baudinii fell into the taxi driver's head. We also searched in a coconut palm where our guide saw 2 salamanders 8 days ago. Habitat outside of banana areas was Heliconia or weedy growth, with many oil palms and a few trees. We searched until about 16:00. Fel had gotten lost and went back to the taxi. He searched in a few green bananas there and found an adult B. striatula. It was extremely hot and sunny all afternoon, with no rain. Spent the evening preparing specimens. The entire area around Kukera Hill is tracked with oil palm plantations, so it's nice to know that B. striatula can still be found here.