It is found on the Pacific versant in south-eastern Guatemala, to central to north-eastern El Salvador and adjacent southern Honduras.

[1] The specific name taylori honors Edward Harrison Taylor (1889–1978), an American herpetologist.

[4] Oedipina taylori was described by Laurence Cooper Stuart [fr] in 1952 based on a single specimen.

It resembles Oedipina alfaroi but it has less webbing in the digits and a reduced number of vomerine teeth.

[1] The holotype was found underneath a rotting log in an open forest.