Field notes, v4227
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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.