Crab-eating Frog

Description:

Crab-eating frogs, also known as Brackishwater frogs, are heavily muscled amphibians with stocky bodies and short legs. A mature brackishwater frog measures 46 to 88 mm from tip of the mouth to anus. It has irregular longitudinal fold of skin at the back. Distinct supratympanic fold is present. Tips of fingers are not flat but somewhat pointed. Webs on feet are deeply excised between toes and a thin flap of skin on outer side of the fifth toe is present. When alive, these frogs are gray or brown in color with irregular-shaped darker marks. A pair of black spots on the sides of the throat that do not meet in the middle is also present. They have white or cream mottling on the lower part of the body. The legs have dark crossbars with white or cream color below. Lips have dark bars.

Habitat:

spotted beside Marikina River, Philippines

Notes:

1. formerly Rana cancrivora 2. Locally known in the Philippines as Palakang Bukid and Palakang Palayan