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P.A. Good
1989
Journal
San Joséto Moravia de Chinipas, Costa Rica
6 Sept.
9'lem beyond to where the road ends at a river - this was the
site of collection & the only known specimen. We drove
to Moravia by way of Cartago, Paraíso, Turrulla + then a
long, bumpy dirt road (ca 30 km) through various small
towns to a big ranch at Moravia de Chinipas, where we
arrived ca. 12:30. The area along the road to Moravia
is highly disturbed + looks pretty bad as far as salamander
collecting is concerned. At Moravia we met the owner of
the ranch, a Ms. Harsh, an American from California,
living in Reno. Seemed like a nice enough person; invited
us in for coffee + talked for a while. Gave us permission to
look around for hours. At ca. 1:30 we drove through
the ranch headquarters area along the road toward the
Indian reservation to the east, which we assumed must be
the one DBW was talking about. Road was 4-wheel right
from the start but got worse + worse + we finally turned
back 6 km out from building - didn't reach Notitutu
site. Stopped along the way in several places pulling
moose on the roadside banks along the way - found no
salamanders although it looked fairly good for Cediopina.
Found Ameiva, Stygophryne + Celestis however. Back to
Moravia at 3:30 then back down to Turrulla where we
stayed in the "Pochotel" N/J turn on the rd to Linton.
7 Sept. Back to Moravia today + looked in moose on roadside banks
for a few hours. Unfortunately much of it was rather