| Barking frog | |
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| Barking frog (Craugastor augusti), Municipality of Jaumave, Tamaulipas, Mexico. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Craugastoridae |
| Genus: | Craugastor |
| Species: | C. augusti
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| Binomial name | |
| Craugastor augusti (Dugès, 1879)
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| Synonyms | |
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Lithodytes latrans Cope, 1880 | |
Craugastor augusti is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae found in Mexico and the southern United States. It is known by various common names but most commonly as the barking frog (also common robber frog, cliff frog). The nominal species likely includes more than one species, sometimes described as subspecies such as the common barking frog (Craugastor augusti augusti), western barking frog (Craugastor augusti cactorum), and eastern barking frog (Craugastor augusti latrans).[2] The epithet augusti is in honor of renowned French zoologist Auguste Duméril.[3]
It is called the barking frog because its call sounds like the barking of a small dog, although vocalizations vary by area.[4] It is an abundant species in Mexico but apparently rare in the United States.[1] However, they are very difficult to detect unless they are calling, which only occurs during few nights after rains.[4]
