Rare. Color reddish-brown. Belly pure white with bold, black flecks. Tail thick and round with constriction at base. All feet with four toes. 
Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 140 records from 20 sources: 95 museum (
), 14 literature (
), 10 research (
), and 15 observation (
), with 6 additional Trauth et al. (2004) locality points remaining unsourced (
). It has been museum vouchered for 8 of 75 counties (), with 1 additional county having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1906 to 2018.
This species occurs throughout a large central portion of the Ouachita Mountains. A disjunct population near Wolf Bayou, Cleburne County (ASUMZ 6020 from 1984), hints at perhaps wider isolated occurrences wherever obligate breeding habitats of sphagnum moss are present.
