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Ranina ranina, also known as the Huỳnh Đế crab, [2] (red) frog crab or spanner crab, [3] is a species of crab [4] found throughout tropical and subtropical habitats. [5] It is often fished for its meat.
Raninidae is a family of unusual crabs, sometimes known as "frog crabs", on account of their frog-like appearance. They are taken by most scientists to be quite primitive among the true crabs. They closely resemble the (unrelated) mole crabs, due to parallel evolution or convergent evolution. In both groups, the claws are modified into tools ...
Notopus dorsipes is a species of frog crab from the family Raninidae which has an Indo-Pacific distribution and which has recently spread into the eastern Mediterranean. It is the only extant species in the genus Notopus .
The crab's round, flat carapace is slightly longer than 8 centimetres (3.1 in). Young G. grapsus are black or dark brown in colour and are camouflaged well on the black lava coasts of volcanic islands. Adults are quite variable in colour; some are muted brownish-red, some mottled or spotted brown, pink, or yellow.
Red crabs have only been commercially fished for about 30 years, so little is known about their biology and reproduction. The National Marine Fisheries Service has deemed them a data-poor stock.
The crab-eating frog (Fejervarya cancrivora) is a frog native to south-eastern Asia including Taiwan, [2] China, Sumatra in Indonesia, [3] the Philippines and more rarely as far west as Orissa in India. [4] It has also been introduced to Guam, most likely from Taiwan. [5]
Atergatis subdentatus, also known as the red reef crab, [2] dark-finger coral crab [2] or eyed coral crab, [3] is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae. [1 ...
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