crab-eating frog
fejervarya cancrivora latin

The crab-eating frog lives near water that is somewhat salty.

The Crab-eating Frog lives in mangrove forests, in river estuaries, swamps, and other wet areas.

Amphibians in the Ao Phang-Nga region include marsh frogs, common bush frogs and crab-eating frogs.

The largest and most specialized family, the Trematosauridae, are the only amphibians to have adapted to a marine life-style with the exception of the modern Crab-eating frog.

Species such as the Crab-eating Frog (F. cancrivora) and F. raja can thrive in brackish water, and the tadpoles of the latter can even survive in pure seawater.

The Crab-eating Frog (Fejervarya cancrivora), is also known as the Asian Brackish Frog, Mangrove Frog and the Rice Field Frog.

Besides fish, numerous other animals use mangroves, including such specialists as the saltwater crocodile, American crocodile, proboscis monkey, diamondback terrapin, and the crab-eating frog, Fejervarya cancrivora (formerly Rana cancrivora).

The Crab-eating Frog (Fejervarya cancrivora), formerly (Rana cancrivora), is a frog native to south-eastern Asia including Taiwan, China, the Philippines and more rarely as far west as Orissa in India.

During the Early Triassic (251.0 - 245.0 Mya) one group of successful long-snouted fish-eaters, the trematosauroids, even adapted to a life in the sea, the only known amphibians to do so with the exception of the modern crab-eating frog.

The Crab-eating Frog (Fejervarya cancrivora), is also known as the Asian Brackish Frog, Mangrove Frog and the Rice Field Frog.

Besides fish, numerous other animals use mangroves, including such specialists as the saltwater crocodile, American crocodile, proboscis monkey, diamondback terrapin, and the crab-eating frog, Fejervarya cancrivora (formerly Rana cancrivora).

The Crab-eating Frog (Fejervarya cancrivora), formerly (Rana cancrivora), is a frog native to south-eastern Asia including Taiwan, China, the Philippines and more rarely as far west as Orissa in India.