Males can reach a length of 72 mm snout-to-vent.

[3] It has an olive to light green dorsal ground color, with a broad mid-dorsal stripe and a light stripe along its flanks.

Males may also have gray-brown marbling or can be heavily spotted.

It is widespread and common on Anguilla and many of its satellites, though it is heavily preyed on there by American kestrels.

Their distribution there does not completely overlap, and where they are both found they appear to fill different niches, for example by A. gingivinus preferring higher and more exposed perches.