Hemisus marmoratus
Silhouette: Jose Carlos Arenas-Monroy · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
The marbled snout-burrower (Hemisus marmoratus) is a species of frog in the family Hemisotidae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, plantations, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches. It is also called the mottled shovelnose frog and marbled shovelnose frog. Wikipedia →
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South Africa · 2021
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Zimbabwe · 2026
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Shovel-nosed Frog sighting in Kruger National Park on a given day, based on 36 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 10th most-seen of the 28 amphibians we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Shovel-nosed Frog in Kruger National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, July and September–October, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Shovel-nosed Frog sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Kruger National Park, in our data
Kruger National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Shovel-nosed Frog sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Anura
The closest relatives of the Shovel-nosed Frog that you can see in Kruger National Park (order Anura, Frogs and Toads) are Grey Foam-nest Treefrog (about 30%), Garman's Toad (about 20%) and Anchieta's Ridged Frog (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Shovel-nosed Frog is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Kruger National Park (36 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
