Crinia insignifera
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The squelching froglet (Crinia insignifera), sometimes called the sign-bearing froglet, is a frog in the family Myobatrachidae. It is endemic to south-western Australia. Crinia signifera was first described in 1954 by John Alexander Moore, a Fulbright Research Scholar from Columbia University who was working at Sydney University in New South Wales. Prior to this, C. insignifera was part of the C. signifera species. Breeding experiments conducted by Moore showed that the Western Australian and New South Wales populations did not produce many viable tadpoles, suggesting that the two regions actually represented different species.
The specific epithet insignifera references the eastern C. signifera from which the species was split, as well the morphological similarity that Moore noted between the two species. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Perth | 🇦🇺 Australia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Squelching Froglet sighting in Perth on a given day, based on 23 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 6th most-seen of the 10 amphibians we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Squelching Froglet in Perth on a given day, against under 5% in September and November–March, the lowest months. That is one of Perth's wettest months, with about 110 mm of rain against 10 mm in December.
Between 6 and 9 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Squelching Froglet sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Perth, in our data
Perth is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Squelching Froglet sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Crinia
The closest relatives of the Squelching Froglet that you can see in Perth (genus Crinia, Typical Froglets) are Glauert's Froglet (about 10%) and Quacking Frog (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Squelching Froglet is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Perth (23 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.
