Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 29-30

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7967643

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scientific name

Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829)
status

 

Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829) View in CoL View at ENA — Native.

Rana cancrivora Gravenhorst, 1829: 41 . Neotype: FMNH 256688 About FMNH , designated by Dubois & Ohler (2000: 30); type material presumably originally at Breslau Museum (= MNHUW] apparently lost. Type locality: None stated/traced; later designated as “ Java ”, Indonesia via neotype designation.

Crab-eating Frog

( Figure 4E View FIGURE 4 ; Windsor Nature Park)

Singapore records.

Rana tigrina (non Daudin, 1802)— Ģnther, 1858a: 9.—Sworder, 1924a: 20 (Pulau Senang).

Rana cancrivora —Sworder, 1925b: 99.— Smith, 1930: 96.—Taylor, 1962: 377–379.—Yuen & Fernando, 1967: 91 (Thomson Road).— Dicker & Elliott, 1970a: 139.— Dicker & Elliott, 1970b: 120.—M.- M. Chew et al., 1972: 759.— Elliott & Karunakaran, 1974: 203–215.—J.S. Sullivan & J.J. Sullivan, 1976: 494.—L.M. Chou et al., 1980: 66.—K. Lim, 1988b: 6 (East Coast Park; Senoko).—K. Lim, 1988c: 28 (Mandai Mangroves).—K. Lim, 1988d: 51 (Serangoon Sludge Works [LH]).—K. Lim, 1988f: 78 (Tanjong Tajam [PU]).—K. Lim, 1990b: 13 (Cluny Road [SBG]; Institute of Education [NTU]; Lim Chu Kang Mangroves; Lower Peirce Reservoir [LP]; Pasir Laba Military Exercise Area; Sungei Buloh [SBWR]).—K.K.P. Lim & L.M. Chou, 1990: 56.—K.K.P. Lim & C.M. Yang, 1991: 223 (Jalan Bongkok Kechil; Pasir Laba; Sungei Buloh [SBWR]; Thomson Road; Woodlands).—K.K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 1992: 28, 144.—P.K.L. Ng, 1992a: 138.—P.K.L. Ng, 1992b: 138.—Wee, 1992: 73 (Lower Peirce Reservoir Park).—L.M. Chou et al., 1994: 93.—K.P. Lim, 1994: 7 (Pulau Ubin).—K.P. Lim, 1994: 12, 15 (Cave Path [BTNR]; Seletar North Forest [USNF]).—J.K.Y. Low et al., 1994: 158.—K.P. Lim, 1995: 20 (Lower Peirce Forest [LP]).—R. Subaraj, 1995: 36 (Pulau Ubin).—R.C.H. Teo & Rajathurai, 1997: 398.—T.M. Leong & L.M. Chou, 1999: 101–104.—P.K.L. Ng & Sivasothi, 1999: 143.—E.K. Chua, 2002: 13 (Pulau Ubin).— Karns et al., 2002: 488 (Pasir Ris Park Mangroves).— Anonymous, 2003: 32, 93 (Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve).

Rana cancrivora cancrivora — Bourret, 1942: 248.— Inger, 1966: 175.

Limnonectes cancrivorus View in CoL — Chan-ard et al., 1999: 16.

Fejervarya cancrivora View in CoL —B.P.L. Goh et al., 2002: 138.—K.P. Lim & F.L.K. Lim, 2002: 144.— Das & Haas, 2005: 379.—H.T.W. Tan et al., 2007: 63.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 56, 158.—P.K.L. Ng et al., 2008: 21.—M.F.C. Ng, 2009: 59, 109 (Semakau Landfill [PS]).—S.H. Chan & C. Goh, 2010: 104 (Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve).—E.K. Chua, 2010: 148 (Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve).—T.H. Ng & K.K. Lim, 2010: 118.—H.T.W. Tan et al., 2010: 87.—M.A.H. Chua, 2011: 279 (Semakau Landfill [PS]).—T.M. Leong, 2011: 22.— Gilbert et al., 2012: 393.—M.F.C. Ng, 2012: 68, 146.— E.K. Chua, 2015: 106.—S.M. Chong et al., 2018: 253.—R.C.H. Teo & Thomas, 2019: 151, 179 (Lasia Stream [BTNR]).—Allain & Goodman, 2020: 217 ( Singapore Botanic Gardens [Evolution Garden]).— Maity et al., 2022: 422, 424, 426.— Mohanty et al., 2022: 105.

Fejervarya cancrivorus View in CoL —P.K.L. Ng et al., 2011: 278.—H.T.W. Tan & K.K.P. Lim, 2011: 196.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2012: 56, 158.—T.H. Ng & D.C.J. Yeo, 2012: 100.—K.K.P. Lim et al., 2016: 172 (Pulau Tekong).—H.T.W. Tan et al., 2019: 132 (Kent Ridge Park; National University of Singapore Kent Ridge Campus).

Fejervarya sp. —B.C. Ng, 2021: 137 (Pang Sua Woodland).

Remarks. Surprisingly, records in Singapore prior to 1988 for this extremely common species are quite sparse.

After Ģnther (1858a) first reported F. cancrivora from Singapore based on two poorly-preserved young specimens in NHMUK, it was only reported again 66 years later ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ) by Sworder (1924a) after he collected one individual on Pulau Senang. However, an unreported specimen (NMW-2587) was collected prior to 1870. After this, no additional record of F. cancrivora was reported until another 42 years later when Inger (1966) examined two specimens at FMNH. Specimens from the late 1950s are deposited at BPBM and FMNH, and from the 1970s at LKCNHM, but these were never reported in the literature. The next field observation was from when Yuen & Fernando (1967) collected one individual from Thomson Road to examine frog parasites. Records became more regular after Lim (1988b) reported observations from ECP and Senoko. Along with Lithobates catesbianus , F. cancrivora has been sold in aquarium shops as food for fish (Ng & Lim 2010). A recent evaluation of the F. cancrivora complex shows that populations from Isthmus of Kra in Thailand south through Peninsular Malaysia, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Java, and Bali are true F. cancrivora (Yodthong et al. 2019) .

Occurrence. Ubiquitous. Common.

Singapore conservation status. Least Concern.

Conservation priority. Lowest.

IUCN conservation status. Least Concern [2022].

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Singapore (no locality) : ZRC.1.1403– ZRC.1.1407 (28-Feb-1970) , ZRC. 1.2767 (31-Oct-1977); Bukit Timah Campus [ NUS] : ZRC.1.2764 (04-Apr-1990); Cluny Road : ZRC.1.1765 (24-Mar-1990); East Coast Park : ZRC.1.1513 (Dec-1987); Jalan Bongkok Kechil : ZRC.1.1408– ZRC. 1.1409 (28-Oct-1974); Lim Chu Kang Lane 8 [ LKC] : ZRC.1.12486 (09-Dec-2011); Lower Peirce Reservoir : ZRC.1.2894(11-Aug-1990); Marina East : ZRC.1.11567– ZRC.1.11568(21-Mar-2006); Pasir Laba : ZRC.1.2932 (26-Dec-1990); Pulau Tekong : ZRC.1.3377 (Aug-1996) , ZRC.1.5633– ZRC.1.5634 (28-Oct-2000) , ZRC.1.11286 (15-Nov-2001) , ZRC.1.9148– ZRC.1.9150 (16-Nov-2001); Pulau Ubin : ZRC.1.12524 (18-Oct-2012); Sungai Buloh Wetland Reserve : ZRC.1.2893 (12-Jul-1990) , ZRC.1.3372 (15-Nov-1990) , ZRC.1.2915 (04-Nov-1990); Thomson Road : ZRC.1.1410– ZRC.1.1412 (28- Oct-1974) , ZRC.1.1413– ZRC.1.1417 (17-Dec-1974); Van Kleef Aquatic Science Centre : ZRC.1.13118 (23-Mar-2017); Woodlands : ZRC.1.1311– ZRC.1.1312 (no date).

Additional Singapore museum specimens. Singapore (no locality): BPBM, CAS, FMNH, NMW.

Singapore localities. Bukit Timah Nature Reserve—Cluny Road—East Coast Park—Jalan Bongkok Kechil—Kent Ridge Park—Lim Chu Kang—Lim Chu Kang Mangroves—Lorong Halus—Lower Peirce—Lower Peirce Reservoir—Mandai Mangroves—Marina East—Nanyang Technological University Jurong Campus— National University of Singapore Bukit Timah Campus—National University of Singapore Kent Ridge Campus—Pang Sua Woodland—Pasir Laba—Pasir Ris Park Mangroves—Pulau Semakau—Pulau Senang—Pulau Tekong—Pulau Ubin—Senoko—Singapore Botanic Gardens—Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve—Thomson Road—Upper Seletar North Forest—Van Kleef Aquatic Science Centre—Windsor Nature Park—Woodlands.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

BPBM

Bishop Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Anura

Family

Dicroglossidae

Genus

Fejervarya

Loc

Fejervarya cancrivora (Gravenhorst, 1829)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P. 2023
2023
Loc

Rana cancrivora

Anonymous 2003: 32
Chua, E. K. 2002: 13
Karns, D. R. & Voris, H. K. & Goodwin, T. G. 2002: 488
Chou L. M. & Ng, P. K. L. & Lim, K. K. P. 1994: 93
Low, J. K. Y. & Arshad, A. & Lim, K. H. 1994: 158
Lim, K. K. P. & Lim, F. L. K. 1992: 28
Lim, K. 1990: 13
Lim, K. & Lim, F. 1988: 6
Lim, K. & Lim, F. 1988: 28
Lim, K. 1988: 51
Lim, K. 1988: 78
Chou L. M. & Ho, S. H. & Khoo, H. W. & Lam, T. J. & Murphy, D. H. & Tan, W. H. 1980: 66
Elliott, A. B. & Karunakaran, L. 1974: 203
Chew, M. - M. & Elliott, A. B. & Wong, H. Y. 1972: 759
Dicker, S. E. & Elliott, A. B. 1970: 139
Dicker, S. E. & Elliott, A. B. 1970: 120
1970
Loc

Rana cancrivora cancrivora

Inger, R. F. 1966: 175
Bourret, R. 1942: 248
1942
Loc

Rana tigrina

Gnther, A. 1858: 9
1858
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