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Crab-eating frog

Fejervarya cancrivora

Photo by KarinSaner
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Field Notes

Description:

This frog can tolerate marine environments (immersion in sea water for brief periods or brackish water for extended periods) by increasing urea production and retention, and by remaining slightly hyperosmotic within urea and sodium flux.

Habitat:

It inhabits mangrove swamps and marshes and is the only known modern amphibian which can tolerate salt water.

Species ID Suggestions

Crab-eating Frog

Fejervarya cancrivora

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Comments (9)
bayucca
At least I am not a crab-eater nor a ear-eater ;-)...
KarinSaner
A really amusing discussion ;-), thank you!
bayucca
OK, hitting the board is a great expression to notify... No, no blind-folded when a bull is around, definitely not...
Mark Ridgway
Genus certainly but web images are all over the place. I got lost with too many sub-species, doubts, contradictions, re-names and work that still needs doing. No I can't say you got a bull's eye while throwing darts over your shoulder blind-folded :-) at least you hit the board.
bayucca
Thanks, Mark! Do you even agree with Fejervarya cancrivora?? Tanslation of my comment would be: A simple shot into the darkness of frog ID, but I am not sure at all...
Mark Ridgway
Good call bayucca. Fejervarya seems quite a complex group.
bayucca
Please, verify!! Eifach e schuss is Blaui!! Bimer überhopt nöd sicher! http://amphibia.my/page.php?pageid=s_foundk&s_id=50 http://biodiversityofpematanggadung.blogspot.ch/2011/11/crab-eating-frog-fejervarya-cancrivora.html http://www.academia.edu/2390567/A_survey_of_herpetofauna_on_Long_Island_Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands_India http://www.jcmnaturalhistory.com/jcmDicroglossidae.htm
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PublishedNovember 20, 2013

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