The Centralian blue-tongue is of a very robust build, short body and slender tail, and is among the largest 1% of species in the family Scincidae.

[3] The skink is predominantly pale brown to grey in colour with a series of nine or more orange-brown bands along the length of the body and tail.

[5][6] In general, habitats include a variety of arid and semi-arid stony and red sandy spinifex vegetated areas.

[7] Analyses of stomach contents have shown that the blue-tongue feeds on a combination of seeds, insects, livestock dung and some vertebrate and invertebrate material such as that of bird or other reptilian remains (i.e. fragments of bone, loose feathers).

[3][5][6] The geographical location of the skink sees one of its major threats to be ingestion of the invasive and toxic cane toad,[8] but it is also under pressures from other anthropogenic processes such as fire and habitat fragmentation.