[1][2][3] The specific name perreti honours Jean-Luc Perret [fr], a Swiss herpetologist who has specialized in African amphibians.

[1] Tadpoles are unusual compared to other Sclerophrys species: they are not aquatic but semi-terrestrial, living in shallow water-films on wet, sometimes nearly vertical rocks.

[3] Perret's toad is endemic to Nigeria where it is known from a single locality, the Idanre Hill in the southwestern part of the country.

Searches in nearby areas have failed to locate other populations in suitable habitat,[3] nevertheless, the toad is common in the location where it is found and the tadpoles plentiful.

The area is rocky and inaccessible and the International Union for Conservation of Nature thinks it likely that more populations would be found if more herpetological surveys were done; no particular threats have been recognized.