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Rasito, Leon
2009
Journal
Aug. 30 El Jobrado, Reserva Datoni - El Diablo, Rasito, Jinotega, Nicaragua
Woke up to find that the cat at UCA station had eaten several specimens,
including the biggest elapitodes any of us had ever seen. Went back to cabin
at El Jobrado and started searching at about 09:30 with 2 guides.
Walked up through secondary forest and bananas to nice primary
forest. I saw a Orangeata (mole?) but it escaped. Opened many logs
until we arrived in an area with lots of bamboo and very big trees,
where I found an adult Oedipina inside a very rotten log. It
was very thin and completely black without any markings - the first
of this genus I have ever found. We then continued down to the houses
where we started, turning logs and raking in leaf litter as we had
done before. I searched a lot in the leaf litter in the buttresses of
large trees but found nothing more. Habitat is really nice, and
Oedipina doesn't seem too rare - 8 specimens total have now been found
(this one, Javier's + 6 by a Nicaraguan herpetologist). Known elevational
range is now ~1250-1400m. I'm not familiar wr/ O. pseudouniformis,
but paratypes from nearby Finca la Cumplida (on road from Jinotega
to Matagalpa) could be conspecific with these (whether or not they
are really O. pseudouniformis). We stopped searching around 13:30 and
drove through Jinotega to try to visit Finca la Cumplida by way of
Finca Minimo, owned by Lenin's friend, but had to stop
at a locked gate. Did a DOR Montigadryce dextalis outside of
Matagalpa. Drove back to Managua and spent evening prepping
specimens.