The Bahia Tapaculo occurs in lowland Atlantic Forest along the coast of Bahia, Brazil. In the coastal birds examined in the study, the flanks are rufous and the thighs bluish.
In coastal Bahia birds, the flanks are rufous and unbarred or show only faint vestigial barring. The thighs are bluish slate and unbarred.
It is recorded in humid lowland Atlantic Forest remaining along the coast of Bahia.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.