Barking frog

''Craugastor augusti'' is a species of frog in the Craugastoridae family found in Mexico and the southern United States. It is known by various common names but most commonly as the barking frog . The nominal species likely includes more than one species, sometimes described as subspecies such as the common barking frog , western barking frog , and eastern barking frog . The epithet ''augusti'' is in honor of renown French zoologist Auguste Duméril.

It is called the ''barking frog'' because its call sounds like the barking of a small dog, although vocalizations vary by area. It is an abundant species in Mexico but apparently rare in the United States. However, they are very difficult to detect unless they are calling, which only occurs during few nights after rains.