This slender long-limbed reptile, has a long snout, although many of them exhibit impressively long tails, sometimes up to 3 times the body length. They vary in colour from grey to reddish brown and have a prominent pale dorsolateral stripe, with pale strip along lower jaw.

They are often seen on trunks, branches, rocks, along gorges and eucalypt-lined watercourses. Distribution in a broad sweep through Western Australia into Central Australia region.