Small. Fossorial. Coloration variable—browns, tans, and grays—with short crossbars connecting two rows of dots. Dark spots below eye and on temporal region. Belly cream. 
Arkansas Herpetological Atlas 2019
This species is represented by 451 records from 30 sources: 287 museum (
), 0 literature (
), 0 research (
), and 138 observation (
), with 26 additional Trauth et al. (2004) locality points remaining unsourced (
). It has been museum vouchered for 61 of 75 counties (), with 5 additional counties having other forms of reported occurrence (). Years of collection range from 1895 to present.
This species may occur statewide, although the distribution is patchy for much of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, where it may be less common. An additional distributional gap from the central Boston Mountains through the Ozark Highlands of northcentral Arkansas is likely an artifact of undersampling this area.
