Broad-headed Creek Frog

Broad-headed Creek Frog

Limnonectes kong

Silhouette: Jose Carlos Arenas-Monroy · PhyloPic

Daily sighting probability ~50% · Likely
at Kubah National Park

In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%

38 Verified sightings at Kubah National Park From 2019 to 2026
38 In 1 park
November Best month
🌙 Nocturnal When it's spotted

About the Broad-headed Creek Frog

Limnonectes is a genus of fork-tongued frogs of 91 known species, but new ones are still being described occasionally. They are collectively known as fanged frogs because they tend to have unusually large teeth, which are small or absent in other frogs.

These frogs are found throughout East and Southeast Asia, most commonly near forest streams. Multiple species of Limnonectes may occupy the same area in harmony. Large-bodied species cluster around fast rivers, while smaller ones live among leaf-litter or on stream banks. The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is home to at least 15 species of this frog, only four of which have been formally described.

Tadpoles of this genus have adapted to a variety of conditions. Most species (e.g. Blyth's river frog L. blythii or the fanged river frog L. macrodon) develop normally, with free-swimming tadpoles that eat food. The tadpoles of the corrugated frog (L. laticeps) are free-swimming but endotrophic, meaning they do not eat but live on stored yolk until metamorphosis into frogs. Before, L. limborgi was assumed to have direct development (eggs hatching as tiny, full-formed frogs), but more careful observations have shown...

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Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Kubah National Park 🇲🇾 Malaysia
~50%

More parks will be added in future updates.

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Broad-headed Creek Frog in Kubah National Park?

Likely

About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Broad-headed Creek Frog sighting in Kubah National Park on a given day, based on 38 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 15th most-seen of the 41 amphibians we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Broad-headed Creek Frog in Kubah National Park?

June and November

In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Broad-headed Creek Frog in Kubah National Park on a given day, against about 10% in February and December, the lowest months.

What time of day is best to see a Broad-headed Creek Frog?

Between 8 and 11 pm

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Broad-headed Creek 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.

Where else can you see a Broad-headed Creek Frog?

Only Kubah National Park, in our data

Kubah National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Broad-headed Creek Frog sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.

Which relatives of the Broad-headed Creek Frog live in Kubah National Park?

Same genus: Limnonectes

The closest relatives of the Broad-headed Creek Frog that you can see in Kubah National Park (genus Limnonectes) are Matang Creek Frog (about 60%), Giant River Frog (about 50%) and Malesian Frog (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Broad-headed Creek Frog sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Broad-headed Creek Frog is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Kubah National Park (38 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.

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