It is a small species that reaches a cloacal face length of 598 mm in males and 560 mm in females. Males tend to have longer tails than females
Back light brown to reddish brown with dark brown to black spots, outlined first in cream and then in dark brown; these are generally not connected ventrally, they are wider than the spaces between them, they present a subrectangular form in the anterior region of the body, oval in the posterior region and become thinner at the height of the paraventrales; spaces between the spots are of uniform color, secondary spots on the absent flanks; head dark brown to black with a whitish stripe on the snout, labials of the snout and white nuchal strips without spots or spots; black bar under the eye; white nuchal collar, extending to the last supralabials; cream belly to white, with rectangular dark brown to black and cream-rimmed rectangular spots.