0d216275-5ece-484c-9fb2-d269c98e636c https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=bisla_frog K V Gururaja Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, MAHE gururaja.kv@manipal.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6907-9907 Priti Hebbar Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education preeti.hebbar@manipal.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4526-139X Deepika Prasad Bisle Kappe Team deepikagprasad@gmail.com Vivek Malleshappa Bisle Kappe Team bionicboy771@gmail.com Vineeth Kumar Bisle Kappe Team vineethk.vinu@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5574-8169 Rohith Rao Bisle Kappe Team rowhitrao@gmail.com Shashwath Jaiswal Bisle Kappe Team shashwatjaiswal@gmail.com Arpitha Joy Bisle Kappe Team arpithadnfp@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0456-2504 K S Seshadri Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) seshadri.ali@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6788-7860 M K Vidisha Dakshin Foundation vidishakrishna@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3213-847X Vignesh Kamath UNEP - WCMC vigneshkamathc@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0953-4653 Ramya Badrinath Gubbi Labs ramya@gubbilabs.in https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3339-621X Ashokavardhana Bisle Kappe Team athreebook@gmail.com H S Sudhira Gubbi Labs

#2-182, 2nd Cross, Extension, Vinayaka Nagara, Gubbi, Tumkur Karnataka 572 216 IN

+919449812215 sudhira@gubbilabs.in https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6568-2327 Bharata Srinivasa Gubbi Labs bharata@gubbilabs.in https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3463-737X Vijay Barve Nature Mates-Nature Club Research Advisor

6/7 Bijoygarh Kolkata West Bengal 700032 IN

vijay.barve@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4852-2567 reviewer 2025-08-16 eng This dataset presents long-term amphibian occurrence records from the Bisle region of Sakaleshpura, Karnataka, India - part of the Western Ghats, a global biodiversity hotspot. The records were collected as part of Bisle Frog Watch, an annual citizen science program initiated in 2012 by Bisle Kappe Team and Gubbi Labs. Each year during the southwest monsoon, participants - including students, researchers, and naturalists - document amphibians over a three-day field workshop through direct sightings and acoustic identification. The compiled checklists represent species observed or heard during these workshops. Records are validated by expert facilitators and reflect group consensus. To date, the initiative has recorded about 40 amphibian species, including several endemic species and first distributional records for the region. The workshops have also indirectly contributed to the discovery and documentation of at least two new species from the Western Ghats. This dataset contributes valuable temporal biodiversity data for a relatively underrepresented region, supporting research, conservation, and public engagement with amphibian diversity in India. Samplingevent GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Observation GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 Bisle, Sakaleshpura, Karnataka 75.691422 75.691422 12.721771 12.721771 2012-07-04 2025-07-11 phylum Chordata family Ranidae family Bufonidae family Nyctibatrachidae family Rhacophoridae order Anura family Micrixalidae order Gymnophiona family Microhylidae family Ranixalidae family Dicroglossidae class Amphibia family Ichthyophiidae kingdom Animalia annually Bharata Srinivasa Gubbi Labs bharata@gubbilabs.in https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3463-737X H S Sudhira Gubbi Labs

#2-182, 2nd Cross, Extension, Vinayaka Nagara, Gubbi, Tumkur Karnataka 572 216 IN

+919449812215 sudhira@gubbilabs.in https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6568-2327 2025-07-09T20:40:12.181+00:00 dataset 0d216275-5ece-484c-9fb2-d269c98e636c/v1.4.xml