Usually aquatic, except for terrestrial eft stage. Color olive and yellowish with many black specks and very few red specks. Dark stripe through eye. Skin rough. External gills absent. 
Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 1,161 records from 29 sources: 1,066 museum (
), 0 literature (
), 0 research (
), and 57 observation (
), with 38 additional Trauth et al. (2004) locality points remaining unsourced (
). It has been museum vouchered for 62 of 75 counties (), with 6 additional counties having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1900 to present.
This species occurs throughout much of the state, but with spotty occurrences in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. An isolated locality plotted by Trauth et al. (2004) in the vicinity of Forest City, St. Francis County, remains unsourced.
