Its native habitat is seasonally dry forests between 100 and 400 meters in elevation near permanent bodies of water.
These basins contained seasonally dry salt lakes, known as chotts.
It is known from a seasonally dry forest area in northeastern Mexico.
In fact, some of the most important wetlands are seasonally dry transition zones.
It probably lived in warm, seasonally dry habitats with occasional pools of water.
It is suited to tropical regions which have a seasonally dry climate.
Many come from desert regions or areas that are seasonally dry.
The typical vegetation is tropical rain forest, or seasonally dry forest.
The typical habitat of this species is seasonally dry upland scrub.
Grows in shallow water up to 0.3 m, in seasonally dry and open habitats.