Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Salamanders were on the vertical walls as well
as the horizontal ledges. The salamanders
appeared very pale in the cave but considerably
darker when we were pickling them later.
The other part of the sink hole is a vertical
short horizontal
shaft off an antechamber. I collected a
(#53)
large Chiroptero triton (and a mass of eggs) at
(54)
The vertical wall of the antechamber. The eggs
were on a slightly sloping shelf off the vertical
t were strung out in a string oval in shape:
[illegible]
The salamander near the eggs moved slowly toward
a crack. She was first seen just a few mm.
away from the eggs -- not touching them.
Sam saw two more Chiroptero triton in the
cylindrical vertical shaft off the antechamber
of this second part of the cave.
Left Ahuacatlan and drove east on Hwy 120
through Xilitla and above a very large
laranca to Mex. Hwy 85. Took this way north
to Ciudad Valles & checked in at the Hotel
Valles. Had dinner w the restaurant and
then pickled the days catch. Sam made
a couple of forays through the hotel for
Gebyra mutilata and got several. The place is
what you could easily call "infested" with
teen geckos. I'm bed about 1 AM.