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This species is found on the lower central Mexican Plateau.

This species has close affinities to desert and shrublands. It presumably breeds in water.

This is a species that is not known very well. There are no studies of the population status of this species but it has been  collected in central Mexico where apparently healthy populations exist.

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Conversion of land for agricultural purposes is the major threat to this species, as well as the proximity of its habitats to urbanized areas. Pollution constitutes another threat.

• 2.1.2 Small-holder farming
• 9.3.4 Type Unknown/Unrecorded
• 6.1 Recreational activities
• 9.1.3 Type Unknown/Unrecorded
• 1.1 Housing & urban areas
• 9.2.3 Type Unknown/Unrecorded
• 2.1.3 Agro-industry farming

Protection of the original ecological conditions is needed. Based upon species´ distribution model, suitable habitat for this species has 57% of remnant distributional range of natural vegetation cover in Mexico (equivalent to 20,517,538 ha), but is just represented in 6,8% in protected areas (6% governmental PA; 0,8% social private efforts). Ochoa-Ochoa, L. Urbina-Cardona, J.N., Flores-Villela, O., Vázquez, L-B and Bezaury-Creel, J. 2009. The Effects of Governmental Protected Areas and Social Initiatives for Land Protection on the Conservation of Mexican Amphibians. PLoS ONE: 4 (9): e6878 (Nicolás Urbina)

• 2.3 Habitat & natural process restoration
• 2.1 Site/area management
• 1.1 Site/area protection

Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

• Kellogg, R. 1932. Mexican tailless amphibians in the United states National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum: 1-224.
• Liner, E.A., Johnson, R.M. and Chaney, A.H. 1976. Geographic distribution. Amphibian and reptile records and range extensions for Mexico. Herpetological Review: 177.
• Nieto Montes de Oca, A. and Pérez Ramos, E. 1998. Guía de los anfibios y reptiles del estado de Querétaro. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.
• Pramuk, J.B. and Mendelson, J.R., III. 2003. Anaxyrus melancholicus Tschudi: Synonym of the Mexican taxon Bufo compactilis Wiegmann (Anura: Bufonidae). Southwestern Naturalist: 676-680.