It is found in the southeastern Mexico (Chiapas), southern Guatemala, El Salvador, and western Honduras.

Dorsal skin is rugose with scattered large tubercles.

Some females show a whitish or pale yellow vertebral line or stripe.

[2] Its natural habitats are steep, rocky streams, primarily in premontane wet forests, but also in lowland and lower montane wet forests, between 400 and 2,000 m (1,300 and 6,600 ft) above sea level.

While a common species, it is threatened by habitat loss, and potentially, chytridiomycosis.