“Collaborative investigation of herpetofaunal diversity in

straddles the borders of the departments of Francisco Morazán and Yoro in central Honduras (Figure; COHECO 2003). I was accompanied by my long-time collaborator and field companion, preeminent Honduran herpetologist Larry David Wilson (Miami Dade College). Parque Nacional Montaña de Yoro (PNMY) protects one of the largest remaining intact cloud forest areas in Honduras (total area of park 154.8 km2; 47.24 km2 above 1800 m elevation), and protects some of the highest portions of the Montañas de la Flor, a small mountain range that is home to the last surviving communities of indigenous Tolupan, who continue to utilize their indigenous language and cultural practices (Chapman 1992). Within the park’s borders are over 4,736 people spread over 55 communities, with the population consisting of Tolupan, ladino, and mixed Tolupan-ladino campesinos (COHECO 2003). Honduras is renowned for the high degree of cloud forest endemism exhibited by its well-studied herpetofauna (McCranie and Wilson 2002, Townsend 2006, Wilson and McCranie 2004). Despite intensive systematic research in many Honduran cloud forests, however, the herpetofauna of PNMY remains almost completely unknown. Thirteen species were reported in the park’s management plan (COHECO 2003), and only five species were reported to occur there by Wilson and McCranie (2004). In light of th