Catalogue and species accounts, v1302
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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