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NORTHEASTERN MEXICO
23 APRIL - 12 MAY, 1975
The purpose of this trip is two fold: (1.) to
Collect the rare, legless, blind, burrowing lizard
Anelytropsis papillosus and (2.) to collect
Those species of neo tropical plethodontids that
occur at the periphery of the radiation in
northeastern Mexico.
The people on the trip were as follows:
Allen Greer (A.G.), Philip Greer (P.G.),
Sam Sweet (S.S.S.) and Jim Hanke (J.H.)
The trip was financed by MVZ, Dave Walter's
NSF grant and by personal funds. All specimens are
in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Calif. (MVZ).
23 April
Left Berkeley at 3:30 PM and took
Hwy 24 to Interstate 580 and then onto Interstate
5 South. Stopped at junction Interstate 5
and Hwy 58 for dinner at about 9:00 PM. After
dinner took Hwy 58 east through Bakersfield
and Tehachapi Pass. Stopped for the
night on a side road just NW of Mohave.
Wind was blowing and night was cool.
24 April
Awoke at 7:00 AM and were on the
road by 7:15 PM. Drive into Mohave for
breakfast. Left Mohave going west east on Hwy
58 to Hwy 395 which we took south to I-15. From
I-15 we hit I-10 and stayed a bit to the