Scientists know it exclusively from its site of collection, the headwaters of the rivers Ere and Campuya near the Colombian border within Peru.

The skin is granular, with dark brown color on the back of each granule.

[4] This frog lives in terrace habitats thick with leaf litter, many tree roots, and small swamps.

When scientists caught the first holotype male, it was sitting in a hole in a tree.

The scientists consider it possible that people have been hearing the vocalizations of Tepuihyla shushupe and attributing them to the snake.