Field notes, v4228
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Brito, Dean 2012 Journal Ciudad del Maiz, S.L.P., Cuara El Pachón and Acuahules, Jamaulipas, Mexico (cont.) Oct. 7 ... We got 3 Christopheri multidentatus, all in bromeliads. I caught a small Rana, in a puddle on the road near a cattle pond which had perhaps 100 more; also got a tiny creciling neolike toadlets. Rafael caught a Depidophyma but accidentally killed it; we fixed it upon returning to the truck. Oh general, the habitat was fairly moist and seemed OK for salamanders, but bromeliads seemed especially good (some but not too much water). We drove E to Antigua Morelos and then ~8km N to Brasas Ahueros. I stopped & asked for Cuara El Pachón, where Tom Devitt had asked me to look for Eleutherodactylus [illegible]. A man showed us the way to the cave, ~300m east of town in tropical dry forest. The opening was rather large and the cave itself was spacious w/ a high ceiling. I quickly found a big Oreogaster augusti in a small hole ~ 0.1m off the ground & ~ 1cm inside the cave. We continued in for perhaps 100m, but the only toad we saw farther inside was a big Depidophyma. Hard to imagine why it would be so far back. I also saw another in a side passage. Somewhere this cave has an endemic species of fish, but I saw no standing water. Lots of bats flying all around. On the way out, Rafael found 2 E. [illegible] about 1m up in a small recess. They both jumped away when I tried to catch them, but I managed to get one after some frantic searching. The cave was fairly warm inside and didn't seem like a great place for B. platydoctyla, the only salamander