It has been found from northern Maharashtra, with a habitat range possibly extending to southern Gujarat.

The head is covered with convex granules, largest on the snout and temples; rostral quadrangular, not quite twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; 9 to 11 upper and as many lower labials; mental triangular or pentagonal; a pair of large chin-shields, forming a long suture behind the point of the mental, in contact externally and posteriorly with two smaller pairs.

Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with uniform smooth scales arranged in rings.

Reddish brown above, with narrow white, black-edged cross bars; the first semicircular, extending from one eye to the other across the nape; a second on the scapular region, two on the body, and a fifth on the sacrum; similar bands forming annuli round the tail; lower surfaces whitish.

[2] Günther (1864) described Gymnodactylus (Geckoella) deccanensis on the basis of a single specimen collected "in the Deccan".