Male members of the species have pectoral glands; the West Cameroon forest tree frog and other members of the genus Leptopelis share this characteristic.

Thus, scientists speculate that the pectoral glands play a role in the frogs' mating process.

[4] The frog was named after José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta, a nineteenth-century Portuguese naturalist who collected many biological specimens in Angola and Mozambique, by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage, a Portuguese zoologist who corresponded with Anchieta.

[2] There are few records of the population range or behaviors of Anchieta's tree frog.

Scientists believe that the frog is most prevalent at medium elevations of about 1000 m. Other species of Leptopelis bury their eggs in mud nests near water, so scientists suspect Anchieta's tree frog may do so as well.