Crab-eating Frog
Fejervarya cancrivora
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Amphibians
The crab-eating frog is a frog native to south-eastern Asia including Taiwan, China, Sumatra in Indonesia, the Philippines and more rarely as far west as Orissa in India. It has also been introduced to Guam, most likely from Taiwan. It inhabits mangrove swamps and marshes and is one of 144 known modern amphibians which can tolerate brief excursions into seawater, and is possibly the only extant marine amphibian.
Classification
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Anura
- Family
- Dicroglossidae
- Genus
- Fejervarya