It is found in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Vietnam, and possibly Cambodia and Laos.

[5] An alternate common name is Günther's Amoy frog, and the honorific is often spelled "Guenther's".

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, plantations, rural gardens, water storage areas, ponds, aquaculture ponds, irrigated land, seasonally flooded agricultural land, and canals and ditches.

[5] The female frog lays eggs in rice fields and streams with still water.

[5] Parasites of this frog include the opalinid Protoopalina pingi, in the rectum.