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title: "Sheep Frog"
description: "Hypopachus variolosus — Amphibians. The northern sheep frog (Hypopachus variolosus) is native to Central America, Mexico, and extreme south Texas, United States."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/sheep-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sheep Frog

> Hypopachus variolosus — Amphibians. The northern sheep frog (Hypopachus variolosus) is native to Central America, Mexico, and extreme south Texas, United States.

- Scientific name: *Hypopachus variolosus*
- Category: `amphibians` (Amphibians)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `farm` (Farm), `savanna` (Savanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 2066
- Wikidata: [Q1881109](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1881109)
- iNaturalist taxon: [25185](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/25185)

## Names

- en: Sheep Frog
- es: Rana termitera
- fr: Grenouille mouton
- nl: Schaapskikker

## Countries with the most observations

MX (950), CR (296), US (263), GT (96), BZ (95), HN (95), NI (26), SV (13)

## Summary

The northern sheep frog (Hypopachus variolosus) is native to Central America, Mexico, and extreme south Texas, United States. It occurs in the lowlands from Sonora, Mexico, to northern Costa Rica on the Pacific coast, and south Texas to Honduras on the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean coasts. The sheep frog inhabits semiarid thornscrub, savannas, pasturelands, and open woodlands, as well as more humid, moist forest in the canyons, basins, foothills, and lower elevations of mountains slopes. It is a fossorial, burrowing frog that is seldom seen on the surface except at night after heavy rains when they emerge to breed…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_sheep_frog

## Photo

![Sheep Frog](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sheep-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: geralg · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/30667493

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sheep-frog?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).