Pelophylax saharicus
In 3 days >90%
The Sahara frog (Pelophylax saharicus) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is native to Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Spanish North Africa (Ceuta and Melilla), and Western Sahara; it has also been introduced to Gran Canaria. In French it is called grenouille verte d'Afrique du Nord, and in Spanish it is known as rana verde norteafricana.
During an expedition to the Sahara Desert in 1912, German ornithologist Ernst Hartert collected several specimens of the Sahara frog at multiple sites in Algeria, which he addressed as "the lake at El-Golea" and "the ditches of the Tidikelt oases called Igosten and In-Salah". The following year, German-British zoologist George Albert Boulenger wrote a description of these specimens for Hartert. Believing they represent a variant of the edible frog (which had the scientific name Rana esculenta at the time), he gave this amphibian the scientific name Rana esculenta saharica. In a 1927 publication, Russian zoologist Pavel Viktorovich Terentjev treated the Sahara frog as a form of the marsh frog (known as Rana ridibunda at the time) under the name Rana ridibunda saharica instead... Wikipedia →
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Very likely
About 70% of wildlife watchers report a Sahara Frog sighting in Marrakesh on a given day, based on 167 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. Over three days the chance rises to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–May and August
In those months about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Sahara Frog in Marrakesh on a given day, against about 30% in January, the lowest month.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sahara Frog sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 4 cities where we can rate Sahara Frog sightings, Marrakesh has the highest daily chance: about 70%. Next come Fez (Morocco, about 50%) and Rabat (Morocco, about 40%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sahara Frog is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Marrakesh (167 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.
