Lithobates yavapaiensis
Silhouette: Jose Carlos Arenas-Monroy · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The lowland leopard frog (Lithobates yavapaiensis) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is found in Mexico and the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, and freshwater marshes. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
Larvae of lowland leopard frogs are herbivorous. The diet of adults is unknown, but they may be opportunistic insectivores, eating aquatic invertebrates and some vertebrates when available. Predators of tadpoles include insects, fish, great blue herons, Sonora mud turtles, tiger salamanders, and garter snakes. Adults are prey of black hawks, ringtail cats, cougars, bobcats, raccoons, American badgers, skunks, gray foxes, coyotes, and American black bears.
Hillis, D.M., Frost, J.S.,& Wright, D.A. (1983): Phylogeny and biogeography of the Rana pipiens complex: A biochemical evaluation. Systematic Zoology 32: 132–143. Hillis, D.M. (1988): Systematics of the Rana pipiens complex: Puzzle and paradigm. Annual Review of Systematics and Ecology 19: 39–63.
Hillis, D.M. & Wilcox, T.P. (2005): Phylogeny of the New World true frogs (Rana). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 34(2): 299–314. doi... Wikipedia →
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saguaro National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Reid Park Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Lowland Leopard Frog sighting in Saguaro National Park on a given day, based on 98 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 5th most-seen of the 7 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.
February, April and June–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Lowland Leopard Frog in Saguaro National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, March and May, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lowland Leopard Frog sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Saguaro National Park, in our data
Saguaro National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Lowland Leopard Frog sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lowland Leopard Frog is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Saguaro National Park (98 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.
