It is known from Rossel (type locality) and Sudest Islands in the Louisiade Archipelago, east of New Guinea.

The fingers are short, unwebbed, and with rounded tips but lacking discs; the toes are unwebbed and have discs that are barely wider than width of penultimate phalanges.

Sometimes they can be uniform dark brown, or have a broad mud-brown vertebral stripe.

[4] Its natural habitats are primary or secondary lowland rainforests and cloudforests,[1] and have been found at altitudes up to 720 m (2,360 ft) above sea level.

[4] It is a fossorial species[1] that can be moderately common several centimeters beneath the soil surface.