''Hypopachus'' is a genus of

microhylid The Microhylidae, commonly known as narrow-mouthed frogs, are a geographically widespread family of frogs. The 683 species are in 57 genera and 11 subfamilies. Evolution A molecular phylogenetic study by van der Meijden, et al. (2007) has estima ...

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski ...

s (common name: sheep frogs) found in the Americas between Costa Rica and the southern United States. They can bury themselves under the ground or moss. Its name means ‘somewhat thick’, referring to its tough skin.

Species

The five species are: *'' Hypopachus barberi'' – Barber's sheep frog * ''Hypopachus guancasco'' – Lenca sheep frogFirneno, T. J., Jr., M. W. Itgen, J. L. Jacobs, C. X. Mcdaniels, I. R. Luque-Montes, L. D. Wilson, and J. H. Townsend. 2021. ''Integrating phylogenetics, morphology, and osteology to delimit a new species of endemic montane sheep frog (Microhylidae: Hypopachus) from the Lenca Highlands of Honduras. Systematics and Biodiversity'' 19: 186–208 (https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1841325). *'' Hypopachus pictiventris'' *''

Hypopachus ustus ''Hypopachus ustus'', the two-spaded narrow-mouthed toad, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae found in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. Its natural habitats are tropical dry and moist lowland forest A forest is an ecosyst ...

'' *'' Hypopachus variolosus'' – sheep frog

References

Frogs of North America Amphibians of Central America Amphibian genera Microhylidae Taxa named by Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein {{Microhylidae-stub