[1] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest floors and intermittent freshwater marshes.

The colour of these markings varies; typically the stripes are green, but yellow and orange specimens occur, as well.

The males take care of the eggs and carry the tadpoles on their backs to pools once they have hatched.

The eggs are laid in small clutches underneath fallen leaves during the rainy season.

He then carries them to a suitable ephemeral pool or water-filled crevice where the tadpoles develop for from 41 to 54 days before undergoing metamorphosis.