[1][2] The specific name wolfi honours Eugen Wolf, a member of the Hanseatische Südsee-Expedition (1909) and writer of the expedition's travel report.

A blackish band runs from the tip of the snout through the eye and the tympanum to the post-axillary region.

[4] Cornufer wolfi occurs in lowland and hill rainforests at elevations below 700 m (2,300 ft).

It is an arboreal species that lays its eggs in leaves in trees some two meters above the ground.

The eggs develop directly into froglets, without free-living tadpole stage.