It is endemic to southern Turkey and is considered vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

It can also be distinguished from them by having a pale neck and belly blotched with red, orange, or sometimes yellow.

[2] Pelophylax caralitanus is endemic to the Turkish Lakes Region of southwestern Turkey where it is found from the Konya Plain to Denizli.

[3] It occupies lakes, reservoirs, ponds, pools, rivers, streams, ditches, springs and marshes.

[1] This is an aqueous species of frog which spends the main part of its life in fresh water locations with plentiful vegetation.