Field notes, v4228
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Raito, Sean 2013 Journal Cerro Motal, Chiapas, Mexico (cont.) Oct. 26 ... we arrived and gradually cleared up over the course of the afternoon. We searched for a few minutes around the summit. I got a Bolitoglossa franklini migrallavorum under a stone and an ancistria under another. Silas got another Bolitoglossa in a log, and Halcy found a Pseudoeurycea cf rex with a clutch of eggs in a log. I took a microslide swab of salamander + eggs and collected it to write a note (we think nothing known about reproduction of this species). Went down into the very messy pine forest where I found many Pseudoeuryceae in June 2012 at 14:00. We quickly collected 10 of the smaller species (P cf rex), all in mostly rotten logs; a few were just under the moss. Girls got a really big male of what I think is the other species (P cf goeldii) under moss on a log; it [illegible] is a uniform dark grey dorsally and grey ventrally w/ some white splashing. It doesn't have spots on gular region like the other species and is apparently much bigger (even than the females of cf rex). Searched until 15:00, then ate lunch. Searched along Road for ~45 min walking down from summit. Silas got 2 more Bolitoglossa under the same rock. We walked back, did microslide swabs, and then searched along the roadbank from the summit downward from 18:40-17:25 (Girls + I each got a Bolitoglossa on the roadbank). We drove down to the El Firven - Motal road and searched along 3 streams for Eleutherodactylus. The first was small and heavily vegetated w/ secondary growth, and the second bigger but w/ less vegetation; found nothing along either. Stopped at a third