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As suggested by their name, microhylids are mostly small frogs. Many species are below 1.5 cm (0.59 in) in length, although some species are as large as 9 cm (3.5 in). [3] They can be arboreal or terrestrial, and some even live close to water. The ground-dwellers are often found under leaf litter within forests, occasionally venturing out at ...
The Mantellidae are an amphibian family of the order Anura (frogs and toads), and are endemic to the Indian Ocean islands of Madagascar and Mayotte. [1] [2] At first glance, the diminutive, brightly-coloured mantellas appear visually similar to (and indeed fill similar ecological niches as) the Latin American poison dart frogs, such as Dendrobates, Oophaga and Phyllobates, among others.
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]
The diet of water-holding frogs is broad and ranges from worms and insects to tadpoles and other small frogs. [3] [12] Frogs may eat their own tadpoles but only when food availability is scarce. [15] On dry land they will also feed on ants and termites. [12]
Chiasmocleis ventrimaculata is a small nocturnal frog of a snout–vent size of approximately 2 cm. [4] C. ventrimaculata lacks webbing on the hind foot. It has a narrow and pointed head and a slender body. [5] These frogs prefer to remain underground during the day and emerge after dusk alongside their spider hosts and forage the surrounding ...
A molluscivore is a carnivorous animal that specialises in feeding on molluscs such as gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods and cephalopods.Known molluscivores include numerous predatory (and often cannibalistic) molluscs, (e.g. octopuses, murexes, decollate snails and oyster drills), arthropods such as crabs and firefly larvae, and vertebrates such as fish, birds and mammals. [1]