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Microbatrachylus
Dec 28 18.6 mi E (by road) San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico
Gary Beeman caught a strange small Eleuthro
dactylid in a stream about 4-6 feet wide
and 1/2 to 1 foot deep that flows through
the dense broad-leaf forest here. The stream
bottom is either silty and rocky, or just
rocky. Gary said he got it while chasing a
large Anolis. It was under a rock. In life it
was reddish-yellow-green mottled with dash
olivaceous.
Dec 29. Gary caught another, much smaller frog
that appears to be the same species. It was
under a rock in the stream. It was dark,
reddish-brown with 2 lighter transverse bars on the
back. These are very delicate frogs, and
die readily when exposed to the sun or when
handled. It was collected in the trash of a
banana plantation far from water.