This species commonly inhabits wooded alluvial swamps, calcareous streams, marshes and lakes in flood lands, seepy pools and swampy banks of bayous and cypress sloughs. Extensive networks of crayfish burrows are a common feature of its habitat. It can co-exist with fishes in the water bodies, and they are especially abundant in drainage ditches in suburban and agricultural areas of the Lower Mississippi River (Green et al. 2014). It usually lays eggs under logs in or near water; terrestrial development of larvae might be typical (Salthe 1973). This species has a free-living larval stage.

This species occurs from the eastern United States of America in western Alabama through eastern Texas, north through Mississippi, Arkansas and western Tennessee to southeastern Missouri and adjacent Kentucky (Conant and Collins 1991, Petranka 1998). It occurs at elevations between 0-350 m asl.

Conservation Actions In-Place
This species likely occurs in several protected areas. 

Conservation Needed
This species would likely benefit from continued and improved habitat protection at sites where it is known to occur.

Research Needed
Further research on this species' distribution, population size and trends is recommended.