Raorchestes ponmudi
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
Raorchestes ponmudi is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, India. It is a large species within the genus, with males measuring nearly 4 cm long from the tip of the snout to the vent. Unusually for frogs, the male is larger than the female. These frogs are larger than any other frog or toad in their habitat.
Each frog has two stripes reaching from the eye to the vent. The stripes cross each other, forming an X on the back. There is a light brown intraorbital mark. The skin of the ventrum is gray-yellow in color with some white and black. The hind legs are light brown with gray marks. The iris of the eye is gold-bronw in color with a gray circle. There is some green color on the front legs.
Like other frogs in the genus, it undergoes direct development. The tadpoles develop into tiny frogs within the egg, with no free-swimming tadpole stage. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, which are threatened habitats. It was first described from Ponmudi hill, for which it is named, but the species was later found to have a wider distribution within the southern Western Ghats. It has... Wikipedia →
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India · 2022
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Periyar National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Ponmudi Bush Frog sighting in Periyar National Park on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 3rd most-seen of the 5 amphibians we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Ponmudi Bush Frog in Periyar National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, July–August and December, the lowest months. That is one of Periyar National Park's wettest months, with about 300 mm of rain against 15 mm in February.
Between 4 and 7 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Ponmudi Bush Frog sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Periyar National Park, in our data
Periyar National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Ponmudi Bush Frog sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Ponmudi Bush Frog is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Periyar National Park (19 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.
