[1][2] The specific name, herminieri, commemorates French naturalist Félix Louis L'Herminier.

[2][3] There are five specimens of L. herminieri, of which three are deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, one in London, and the other in Leiden.

[citation needed] Though Martinique is assumed as the geographic range of L. herminieri, there was some confusion about the type locality in the past.

While André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron stated Martinique and Trinidad and Tobago as type locality, George Albert Boulenger has given only Trinidad and Tobago as terra typica.

The large dorsal scales are keeled and forming continuous oblique series.