[1][2] These frogs are found in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca, and Central America to western Panama.

[1] Ptychohyla has a pale pink iris and nuptial outgrowth in breeding males that differentiates this new species from other Mexican frog groups.

[3] This new species usually live in untouched tropical forest.

They are known to be vulnerable in modified habitat by humans.

[3] The following species are recognised in the genus Ptychohyla:[1]