Crab-eating frog: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the crab-eating frog lives – recorded in 4 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Fejervarya cancrivora
Group	Frogs & toads
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	4 countries
Continents	Asia, Oceania
Class	Amphibian
Order	Anura
Family	Dicroglossidae

Where does the crab-eating frog live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the crab-eating frog in 4 countries and territories across Asia and Oceania. In Malaysia it is listed as introduced (GRIIS checklists via GBIF).

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the crab-eating frog endangered?

The crab-eating frog’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the crab-eating frog?

The crab-eating frog (Fejervarya cancrivora) is an amphibian in the order Anura and the family Dicroglossidae, genus Fejervarya. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the crab-eating frog

The crab-eating frog (Fejervarya cancrivora) 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.

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. Adults can survive in salt water with salinity as high as 2.8%, and tadpoles can survive salinities as high as 3.9%.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Crab-eating frog (revision 1375568456), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q2275335 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).