Its range used to include Anguilla, but it is now extirpated there.

[1][2] Males reach a maximum of 58 mm (2.3 in) in snout-to-vent length.

Males have a uniform light brown to orange-brown dorsal surface, with an off-white to yellowish ventral surface.

A. pogus coexists throughout much of its range with A. gingivinus, though they appear to fill different niches, for example by A. pogus preferring lower and less exposed perches.

Previously described as a subspecies of A. wattsi, it was elevated to species level in 1990.