As currently defined, its range is restricted to the states of Maharashtra and southern Gujarat; earlier records elsewhere refer to other species.

[3][4][5][1] The specific name leithii honours Andrew Henderson Leith, a physician who worked as Sanitary Commissioner in Bombay.

[7] The following description is adopted from George Albert Boulenger's "Fauna of British India":[8] Vomerine teeth in two oblique groups are set just behind the level of the choanae.

The head is moderate; the snout is obtuse, with obtuse canthus rostralis and concave loreal region; the nostril is nearer to the end of the snout than to the eye; the interorbital space is a little narrower than the upper eyelid; the tympanum is distinct, two thirds the diameter of the eye.

The fingers are moderate, the first extending not quite as for as second; the toes are two-thirds webbed, the web reaching the disks of the third and fifth toes; tips of fingers and toes dilated into small but well-developed disks; subarticular tubercles moderate; a single, small, oval inner metatarsal tubercle; no tarsal fold is present.

The skin of the back has small scattered longitudinal warts; a strong fold runs from the eye to the shoulder.

[1] Scientists have seen the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on this frog, but they do not know its specific morbidity or mortality.