A team of Shuar helped scientist John E. Edwards on his surveys through the Cordillera del Cóndor.

[2][1] Regarding the frog's habits, scientists caught one specumen under vegetation at night and others active on the forest floor during the day.

Subsequent surveys to many other parts of the frog's range have produced no specimens.

It is now believed to be absent from the areas near the Reventador volcano, the Río Quijos-Topo low place, Zamora, and the Cordillera del Condór.

Scientists believe many of the frogs died from habitat loss associated with agriculture and logging and from the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which causes the disease chytridiomycosis.