The term "gliding" frog refers to its ability to break its fall by stretching the webbing between its toes when making leaps down from the treetops.

[2] The vomerine teeth are arranged in two straight or slightly oblique series touching the inner front edge of the choanae.

The snout is rounded but not very wide, about as long as the diameter of the orbit, the canthus rostralis is bluntly-angled, and the loral region is concave.

[3] The Malabar gliding frog is found in the Western Ghats of India and has been described in the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra.

During the breeding season, they move to trees hanging above water bodies into which their tadpoles drop.

Males of this species sit by the banks of streams and emit calls to attract females.