It is found in the Amazon biome of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

Male frogs can be heard calling from under wet leaf litter, near pond edges.

[4] The call consists of many sporadically emitted, short multi-pulsed notes (3–6 pulses).

It is found in terra firma primary and secondary tropical rainforest and in seasonally flooded forest.

[4] Chiasmocleis bassleri is adversely impacted by habitat loss due to forest clearing.