[1] It is endemic to Mount Elliot in Bowling Green Bay National Park in northeastern Queensland.

[2] P. amnicola are beige or white in color with dark splotches and/or stripes running crosswise on their body.

The "leaf-tailed" name comes from the tail, which resembles a leaf and has a long knob-like tip, and from the compressed morphology of the body.

Foraging occurs near turbulent or flowing water, so this is hypothesized to be why the geckos are always found in this location and in the head down position.

In 2000, Couper, et al. recorded that in 14 collected mature female specimens, 8 carried between one and three shelled eggs.