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This species is endemic to the western Cordillera Central in Panama, adjacent to Costa Rica, at 1,200-1,600m asl.

It inhabits humid montane forest, and climbs on low vegetation, although it is not fully arboreal. It presumably breeds by direct development.

It is known from three specimens and is probably a rare species. It was last recorded in the early 1990s.

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The main threat to this species is habitat loss, especially as a result of expanding livestock farming at lower altitudes.

• 7.1.3 Trend Unknown/Unrecorded
• 1.1 Housing & urban areas
• 2.1.2 Small-holder farming
• 2.3.2 Small-holder grazing, ranching or farming
• 7.2.11 Dams (size unknown)
• 5.3.5 Motivation Unknown/Unrecorded

It occurs in Parque Internacional La Amistad.

Listed as Data Deficient in view of the absence of recent information on its status and ecological requirements.

• Brame, Jr, A.H., Savage, J.M., Wake, D.B. and Hanken, J. 2001. New species of large black salamander, genus Bolitoglossa (Plethodontidae) from western Panamá. Copeia: 700-704.
• Wake, D.B., Savage, J.M. and Hanken, J. 2007. Montane salamanders from the Costa Rica-Panamá border region, with descriptions of two new species of Bolitoglossa. Copeia 2007(3): 556-565.