The striped marsh frog was described by French naturalists André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron in 1841.

They will inhabit ponds, roadside ditches, creeks, dams, flooded areas and any other available water body.

They make a "knock" call as if you were to hit a piece of timber with a hammer,[4] during all months of the year (particularly spring-autumn).

Several studies have used striped marsh frogs to try to understand why worldwide amphibian declines are greater in montane regions.

Researchers have found that negative effects of low temperatures and high ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation on tadpole survival are greater when the two stressors are combined.

[5] UVB radiation decreased the survival of striped marsh frog tadpoles, but there was an increasingly large mortality rate when low temperatures were involved.