[1][4] It is named in honour of Martin Vestergaard, the Danish biologist[5] who was the first to recognize that the population now described as Nectophrynoides vestergaardi was a new species.

Preserved specimens have light brown dorsal ground colour and are conspicuously darker laterally.

[3] The presence of a small number (18) of large, developed embryos in females suggests that this species is ovoviviparous.

[3] Nectophrynoides vestergaardi occurs in montane forests and their ecotone toward ericaceous vegetation.

It is locally relatively common but threatened by habitat loss caused by agricultural activities, wood extraction, and expanding human settlements.