Crab-eating Frog

Crab-eating Frog
Fejervarya cancrivora from Bogor, West Java
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Anura
Family:	Ranidae
Genus:	Fejervarya
Species:	F. cancrivora
Binomial name
Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829)
Synonyms
Rana cancrivora Gravenhorst, 1829

The Crab-eating Frog (Fejervarya cancrivora), formerly (Rana cancrivora), is a frog native to south-eastern Asia including the Philippines and more rarely as far west as Orissa in India.^[2] It inhabits mangrove swamps and marshes and is the only known modern amphibian which can tolerate salt water. It is locally favored for its eating quality and is often farmed for its edible legs. Call described as "…dododododok …dododok."

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.^[3][4][5]

References

1. ^ http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/58269/0
2. ^ Rare species of frog, snake in Orissa
3. ^ Dicker SE, Elliott AB (March 1970). "Water uptake by the crab-eating frog Rana cancrivora, as affected by osmotic gradients and by neurohypophysial hormones". J. Physiol. (Lond.) 207 (1): 119–32. PMC 1348696. PMID 5503862. http://www.jphysiol.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=5503862. 
4. ^ Tatsunori S, Sakae K, Noboru Y (1995-10-15). "Morphology of the Skin Glands of the Crab-eating Frog: Rana cancrivora". Zoological science 12 (5): 623–6. doi:10.2108/zsj.12.623. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110003323347/en/. 
5. ^ Kidney Funcation in the Crab-Eating Frog

• Berry PY (1975). The Amphibian Fauna of Peninsular Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur: Tropical Press. 
• Inger RF (1966). The Systematics and Zoogeography of The Amphibia of Borneo. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History. ISBN 9839965905. 
• Inger RF, Stuebing RB (1997). A Field guide to The Frogs of Borneo (2nd ed.). Borneo: Kota Kinabalu : Natural History Publications. ISBN 9838120855. 
• Iskandar DT (1998). Amfibi Jawa dan Bali. Bogor, [Indonesia]: Puslitbang Biologi - LIPI. ISBN 9795790153. 
• Iskandar DT, Colijn E (December 2000). "Preliminary Checklist of Southeast Asian and New Guinean Herpetfauna. I. Amphibians". Treubia 31 (3 Suppl): 1–133. 

External links

• Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia - Fejervarya cancrivora
• Crab-eating Frog at Ecology Asia

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