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The range of this recently described species is described by Wake et al. (2007) as being a "small region along the Pacific slope on either side of the Costa Rica-Panama border". In Costa Rica it has been recorded between 1,170 to about 1,250m asl from "the eastern end of the Fila Costeña at the Las Cruces Biological Station (Catherine and Robert Wilson Botanical Garden) and the relatively close Finca Loma Linda" (Wake et al. 2007). Specimens are also known from the western slopes of the Cordillera de Talamanca in extreme western Panama (at 1,700 to 2,120m asl); these have been collected at three separate sites both in the vicinity and above and to the east of the valley of the Río Candela (Wake et al. 2007). Subsequent surveys (2007 and 2008) have revealed that this species also occurs in Tres Colinas and La Lucha to the northwest of the originally described distribution in the Cordillera de Talamanca.

This species has only been collected on a few occasions and little is known about the population abundance.

Wake et al. (2007) report that the species is found in the "Tropical Premontane Rainforest and Tropical Lower Montane Rainforest zones (sensu Holdridge,1967)". Animals have typically been collected from large bromeliads, up to 3m up trees, within cloud forest; a single animal was collected from the forested ridge of a recently cleared field (Wake et al., 2007). It is possibly a direct developing species, however this requires confirmation.

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 The threats to the species are not well-known. Some, however much of the known range of this species is unprotected.

This species is present in the the forest fragment associated with the Las Cruces Biological Station (Catherine and Robert Wilson Botanical Garden). Further details are needed on the threats to this newly described species.

• 2.1 Site/area management

Listed as Near Threatened due to its limited range size.  The species has been found in protected areas such that there is no indication that populations are declining (and thus does not quite qualify for VU B1, B2). It is possible that this species may qualify as Vulnerable D2, however more certain information is needed on plausible threats to this species.

• Holdridge, L.R. 1967. Life Zone Ecology. Tropical Science Center, San José, Costa Rica.
• 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.