[2] The background colour is silvery with a greyish green dorsum, the vertical bars decrease in size towards the head.

[4] Raiamas senegalensis is found in western Africa as far east at the Nile basin.

It is found in the basins of the Nile, Lake Chad, Niger, Gambia, Senegal, Volta and the coastal basins of Sassandra, Bandama, Comoé, Tano, Pra, Ouémé, Ogun and Sanaga, which seems to represent its southern distributional limit; it is also known from the Cross River in Cameroon.

This means that the countries this species has been recorded in are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan and Togo.

[1] Raiamas senegalensis has a wide distribution, there are no known major widespread threats so it is therefore listed as Least Concern.