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Quasipaa spinosa is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is known under many common names, including Chinese spiny frog, giant spiny frog, Chinese edible frog, and spiny paa frog. [2] Its names refer to the distinctive characteristics of the species, relatively large size and the spiny chest of male frogs.
According to students from UC Irvine, a three-legged toad is the equivalent of the moon in Chinese mythology (yin concept), which is personified by the goddess Chang'e. Several tales of the Chinese folklore may explain the relation between the toad and the good fortune, but no official reason seems to prevail.
The medium-sized frogs are sold as pets in pet stores, and the smaller variant is sold as live food for arowanas or other predator fish. They are widely farmed in Sichuan, China, Malaysia, and Thailand. These frogs, though much smaller than their Western counterparts, are used by Chinese to cook frog legs and by Filipinos who cook them for ...
Feng (mythology), an edible monster that resembles a two-eyed lump of meat and magically grows back as fast as it is eaten. Fenghuang, Chinese phoenix; Fenghuang. Feilian, god of the wind who is a winged dragon with the head of a deer and tail of a snake.
Zhangixalus omeimontis are moderately large frogs: males grow to a snout–vent length of about 59 mm (2.3 in) and females to 76 mm (3.0 in). [3] Maximum sizes can be even higher, reaching at least 70 mm (2.8 in) in males and 84 mm (3.3 in) in females. [4] They tend to be bigger and older at cooler sites (i.e., at higher altitudes).
This phrase is a take on a Chinese allegory, “a toad wants to eat the meat of a swan” (simplified Chinese: 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉; traditional Chinese: 癩蛤蟆想吃天鵝肉), which describes the pursuit of something that one is unworthy of. [2]
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The Asiatic grass frog or Chinese brown frog (Rana chensinensis) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, found in China and Mongolia. [3] Its natural habitats are temperate forests, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, and irrigated land. It is threatened by habitat loss. [1]