Uniformly light brown to dark brown or black dorsally, with more advanced tadpoles darker. The body is darker than the tail, and markings are absent. Body pigmentation continues onto the tail, lightening distally. Tail fins are well pigmented and brown. Ventral body surface is pigmented but less intensely than dorsal surface, with inner organs faintly visible through the skin. In ventral view, extreme closeups reveal long, thin melanocytes forming a conspicuous crosshatching pattern mixed with irregular dot-like melanocytes. As in other rhacophorid tadpoles, the anterior abdomen (gut coil) may bear a patch of iridocytes, though it may be obscured in advanced stages due to dense melanocytes. Oral disc bears melanocytes at its base.