Pulchrana baramica
Silhouette: Michael Scroggie, from original photograph by John Bettaso, USFWS (original photograph in public domain). · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Pulchrana baramica, the Baram River frog, brown marsh frog, or masked rough-sided frog, is a species of "true frog", family Ranidae. It is found in the Malay Peninsula, including the extreme south Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, and Singapore, and in the Malay Archipelago, including Borneo (Brunei, Kalimantan, and East Malaysia), and the Indonesian islands Java, Sumatra, and Bangka Island. Its type locality is the Baram River in Sarawak, Malaysia, giving it one of its common names. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and swamps. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
"Hylarana baramica". Amphibians and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) Sound recordings of Hylarana baramica at BioAcoustica Wikipedia →
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Malaysia · 2023
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Malaysia · 2026
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Malaysia · 2025
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bako National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Tanjung Puting National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuching | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Brown Marsh Frog sighting in Kuching on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 9th most-seen of the 10 amphibians we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, June and December–January
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Brown Marsh Frog in Kuching on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, May, July and September–November, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown Marsh Frog sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Kuching, in our data
Kuching is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Brown Marsh Frog sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown Marsh Frog is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Kuching (12 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
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