Journal and species accounts, v1347
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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 Fortín 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