Guatemala field catalog and journal, v4288
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14 - I've found what I suppose is Bolitoglossa morio in the forest above Chi- chave, it turns out that Chichivae is a factory where statuary is made, apparently there IS a special type of stone there, and they blasted several times today. I thought it was a staircase factory because "calera" sounded like "escalera" to me. The animals were found in the mixed pine and oak woods at the top of the ridge behind the factory in stumps and logs I beleive of both tree species, also one individual was found beneath a fallen bromeliad. Schmidt describes morio as having white spots, sometimes fused into stripes and tinged with yellow. By no stretch of the imagination could the markings on today's specimens be considered white or yellow. These vary from all do have tiny white flecks on the venter which extend onto the lower sides in some cases, and the feet, but these are not the dominant marking and never enlarge. On some the largest light markings are small irregular (174-175) grey to grey-brown patches on the lower side, but there are so insignificant that at first, before close inspection I considered some of the animals pure black-brown. On others there are more dramatic large patches, sometimes