It lives in fast-flowing rivers in lowland and mid-altitude rainforest, and in secondary forest and agricultural habitats, including tea plantations. The tadpoles live in fast, even torrential, water and at the foot of small waterfalls.

This species is known from lowlands of the Osamba Hills in eastern Nigeria to the Mayombe Hills in extreme western Democratic Republic of Congo, with records from Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has also recently been recorded from the Serra do Pingano region of Angola (Ernst et al. 2014), which is the first country record for it. Its elevational range is between 26–1,458 m Asl (Ernst et al. 2014, M. Hirschfeld pers. comm. July 2016). It is presumed to occur in Congo and in the Cabinda Enclave of Angola.

Conservation Actions
This species occurs in several protected areas including Monts de Cristal and Moukalaba-Doudou National Parks in Gabon (Burger et al. 2006, Pauwels and Rödel 2007).

Conservation Needed
Bd mitigation strategies, as well as increased habitat protection, is required to sustain diverse amphibian communities in areas such as Mount Manengouba, which contains nearly half of Cameroon’s amphibian diversity (Hirschfeld et al. 2016).