The specific name, spurrelli, is in honour of British zoologist Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and intermittent freshwater marshes.

[3] The gliding tree frog is native to the humid forests of south-eastern and south-western Costa Rica, Panama, the Pacific lowlands of Colombia, and north-western Ecuador.

It also glides while leaping which it does by spreading out its hands and feet when the extensive webbing acts as a parachute.

The eggs are laid in small clusters on the upperside of leaves overhanging temporary pools and water-filled cavities in logs.