Arthroleptella lightfooti
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Lightfoot's moss frog or the Cape Peninsula moss frog (Arthroleptella lightfooti) is a species of frog in the family Pyxicephalidae. It is endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitats are temperate forest, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, and rivers.
It is threatened by habitat loss. Wikipedia →
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South Africa · 2021
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Lightfoot's moss frog sighting in Table Mountain National Park on a given day, based on 173 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 5th most-seen of the 18 amphibians we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Lightfoot's moss frog in Table Mountain National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January and February, the lowest months. That is one of Table Mountain National Park's wettest months, with about 110 mm of rain against 15 mm in February.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lightfoot's moss frog sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Table Mountain National Park, in our data
Table Mountain National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Lightfoot's moss frog sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Pyxicephalidae
The closest relatives of the Lightfoot's moss frog that you can see in Table Mountain National Park (family Pyxicephalidae, African Box-headed Frogs) are Cape River Frog (about 40%), Clicking Stream Frog (about 30%) and Cape sand frog (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lightfoot's moss frog is recorded against all the amphibians logged in Table Mountain National Park (173 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.
