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I have a few pictures up from when I was living in Costa Rica earlier this year. There's two that you guys may be interested in. The one is a picture with myself and a Bothreichis lateralis in Reserva San Ramon, the other is of a Porthidium nasutum from Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui (La Selva area). Here's the link: http://www.yeagersfrogs.com/CostaRicaGallery.htm

My site is mainly dart frogs and my research with them, but I got very excited about several of the snakes I encountered (though very hard to find). The last day there we found a Lachesis melanocephala in La Selva while finishing filming some shows for the BBC (Discovery Channel as well). That was definitely a highlight.
Best,
Justin Yeager

Although, the Lachesis in La Selva is stenophrys, not melanocephala. No pics of it?

Nice pic of Phrynohyas too!! We caught one two years ago on the Osa that was ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS!! From the literature I've read, it is one of many species that gets very large specifically in the area around the Golfo Dulce. Apparently for venulosa, through its entire range, from Mexico to S.America, the largest specimens come from the Osa Peninsula.

On the last trip in April, we found D. auratus, D. granuliferous and Phylobates vittaus, as well as Colestethus flotator and C. talamancae(sp?). I leave again on Oct. 4th for another week on the Osa looking specifically for Lachesis melanocephala.

THanks

Matt

Shoot, sorry, I always screw up the right species on bushmasters. I have a few pictures, but when we found it my camera was broken, so a friend of mine will be sending me copies of me sitting over it, and of it in the cover. There is quite a variety of Phrynohyas, and the ones we found were very large. The only other ones I've seen are resinifix from Brazil. I'll hopefully be going back around October and again in January to finish up a few projects we're working on. The last trip we found a lot of really great stuff, too much to start listing. I was there for six months, and spent a good amount of time with Federico Bolanos, he taught me an enormous amount about herps there. Have a great trip, and perhaps we'll meet up while we're working on our D. granuliferus project.
Best,
Justin

Sounds Good. Yeah, we're also planning another group trip for next April to Sirena again.

Don't worry about the bushmaster mixup....Even Jeff Corwin's show on CR staged a bushmaster(stenophrys) in Manuel Antonio. Even melanocepahala don't range up that far(at least not now...maybe at one time they did.).

Good luck with the Dendrobates. Incidentally, we found the venulosa sitting on a railing at our lodge. We initially thought it was a marine toad because of the size. I have a pic somewhere of it sitting on my shoulder...I'll email it when I dig it out.

Matt