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D. A. Good
1987
Journal
Vbleán Cacao, Llan Guanacaste, Costa Rica
22 August
strongly attached to the trunk. Well anchored but thick and
fairly loose moss seems to be the name of the genus.
After looking in this same area for ½ hour without
finding any more Nototriton, we worked on up the trail looking
in likely spots (although many of these turned out to have the
wrong type of moss) to about 1460 m elev. Here we turned
around (ca. 1100 oilvols) + worked back down pulling more moss
+ looking in ca. 20-25 bromeliads. Nothing in the bromeliads,
which were generally full to the brim with water, but I
found a clutch of Nototriton eggs just a few feet from the
Nototriton collected earlier in the morning. It was ca. 4ft off
the ground in moss on a vertical tree trunk. Unfortunately
I neglected to get a temperature, but conditions looked almost
identical to those under which the adult was found.
Returned to Casa Mongo ca. 12:30. Spent the afternoon
recording + writing field notes.
After supper (ca. 545) we hiked up the trail toward
Casa Frends with the intention of collecting along one of the streams
N of the summit of the trail (the point at which the trail to the
top of Cacao leaves it). It got dark before we reached the summit
+ the Elattherosdactylus diastoma began to call. These seem to be
much more common N of the summit where the woods are a bit
wetter than around Casa Mongo. We had been hearing diastoma
every night but as yet had not managed to find any. Tonight
we got 2 (see catalogue) also along the trail (in the middle of
it in fact), we got an Elattherosdactylus floresi
On finally reaching the stream - a tributary of Ribeirada