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Points, Dean
2012
Journal
Cerro Mazate, Mpio. Motozintla, Chiapas, Mexico (cont.)
June 18 ... Dropped specimens under difficult conditions (rainy, dark, on ground), then ate dinner. At 22:15, walked back down to small road where we had searched this afternoon and started searching (mostly on roadcut) at 22:40. Found no salamanders, but Jorge found a pair of Bifor bocourti on the road in amphixus, and Dimo got another B. bocourti and a fleeping under a fallen branch both along the road. Searched on the way back to camp, arriving at 00:30. It was cold and clear while we searched, but still very wet from the afternoon rain.
June 19 It rained last night and in the morning, so we slept in late, left camp at 11:00 and headed downhill from where Jorge had found the Pseudoeuryces. I went downhill for ~5 min down a steep slope to an area with fewer trees and some grazing cattle. Found a Pseudoeuryces dog inside a rotten log. Has a spotted gular region and is quite dark; looks mostly like the one Jorge got. Went a little more downhill and got into an area of broadleaf (mostly oak) trees with a little pine and fir. There were many very rotten logs and I found 7 more Pseudoeuryces inside logs and 1 juvenile under wood chips next to a rotten log. Several of them were more reddish in color and looked somewhat like P. fox clive seen in San Marcos; all of these had a spotted gular region. One of them from inside a log was darker dorsally w/ a darker ventral (including underside of tail) and an unmottled center, looks very much like the P. goebeli we got in [illegible] Australia in 2006.
The area w/ all the logs was even more humid than other areas; was very mossy, and looked different from the pine forest above. Dimo and Jorge searched until 13:30; I searched until 14:00. It rained lightly but steadily