[3] It is endemic to northern and western Borneo (Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia).

[4] The original species description by George Albert Boulenger from 1887 is as follows:[2] Snout very short, broadly rounded, obliquely truncate at the end, with nearly vertical, concave lores; eyes large; interorbital space as broad as the upper eyelid; tympanum very small, not very distinct.

Fingers short, dilated into enormous disks, the width of which equals three fourths the width of the eye; a broad web, is it omnivoreighter cross bands; hinder side of thighs blackish, speckled with whitish; lower surfaces whitish.

Staurois latopalmatus is most common in primary lowland rainforests; it perches on vertical rock faces in or near rapids in clear, swift, rocky streams.

This species can be locally very abundant and can also occur in disturbed areas close to primary forests.