This frog can be found throughout the Solomon Islands archipelago (both in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville of Papua New Guinea and in the Solomon Islands, an independent state), except for San Cristobal.

[1] They average about 7.6–10 cm (3–4 in) in length, with females being larger than the males.

[citation needed] They are an interesting example of a species that undergoes direct development—there is no free-living tadpole stage; instead, the juvenile emerges from the egg as a fully developed froglet.

[1] They grow rapidly from a 3 mm (1⁄8 in) long froglet on a diet of tiny insects until they can take the adult diet of insects, arthropods, smaller amphibians and small reptiles.

They are ambush predators, pouncing quickly on any prey animals that happen to wander within their reach – including their own species.