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Hanken,
James
1976
Journal
Hotel Mayorga, Fortin de las Flores, Est. Veracruz,
Mexico
25 July and collected ~ 60 Thorius of two species. I could
(cont'd) not separate the two until returning to El FortÃn so
I can't make ecological obs. distinguishing
the two, but Thorius were taken under bark on
stumps, under logs, and, abundantly, in piles
of wood chips and shavings. The two species
appear to be the same two which are at El Berro:
T. spilogaster (almost melanistic) and another
large form w/a colored dorsal stripe. We also
took 6 Pseudoeurycea gadovi under bark and
inside logs, ~25 several P. leprosa, and >30
Chiropterotriton chiropterus, several of the latter
two in bromeliads.
24 July - Today we split into two groups. The Wals's,
Feder, and Jim Lynch went to Puerto del Aire
and worked the locality 3.2 km S of Mex. Hwy 190.
They concentrated on bromeliads in search of
Thorius (dubitus?) and P. fuscicauda. They
found no Thorius Pseudoeurycea, but took eight
Thorius from bromeliads. In addition, ~70 Thorius
were found on the ground under rocks. A looking
over these latter animals in the evening I picked
out 10 which seemed to resemble the bromeliad
type because of the slightly keeled tail. However,
the coloration was not the same (see species
account). They were frozen separately and