Catalogue and species accounts, v1302
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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