Leptodactylus poecilochilus
Silhouette: Jose Carlos Arenas-Monroy · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
Leptodactylus poecilochilus is a species of frog in the family Leptodactylidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, and possibly Nicaragua. The adult male frog measures 33 to 49 mm in snout-vent length and the adult female frog 32 to 50 mm. The head is longer than it is wide. There is some folded skin on the back. The skin of the dorsum is brown-gray in color with spots or stripes. There is a light stripe in the middle of the back. Sometimes there is dark color on the chin. The backs of the back legs have bars. There is a long white stripe on the thighs. The ventrum is white in color. The male frog's vocal slit is black. The iris of the eye is gold in color.
This frog is an explosive breeder. The female frog desposits eggs in ponds. The tadpoles can grow as long as 40 mm at stage 40. The mouth is on the bottom of the body. The body shows blotched coloration, with darker color on the back and lighter on the belly. The caudal fin is pointed. There are spots on the tail.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, intermittent... Wikipedia →
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Panama · 2025
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Colombia · 2024
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Suriname · 1974
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Rosa National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Turbo White-lipped Frog sighting in Santa Rosa National Park on a given day, based on 23 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 8th most-seen of the 14 amphibians we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Turbo White-lipped Frog in Santa Rosa National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, April and September, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Turbo White-lipped Frog sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Santa Rosa National Park, in our data
Santa Rosa National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Turbo White-lipped 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 Turbo White-lipped Frog is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Santa Rosa National Park (23 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.
