Lizards without legs and Serpent appearance, they can reach up to 525 mm length, of which 280 mm belong to the queue.
Small head with eyes without eyelids. No neck or eardrum apparent.
The body is solid and cylindrical, covered with scales small, smooth and shiny. Predominantly parduzca colour, occasionally grey, with gold and tanned reflexes. Two lateral dark bands run through virtually the entire body on the basis of commonly behind the nostrils. Belly yellowish shade with a dark plot in males and Slate gray or almost black in females.
There are cases is albinism and melanism. The young are silver grey or bluish-grey, with very dark and marked bands.
The tail is long and thick and rounded end. Like other lizards, it has the capacity of autotomizarla, that is, to break off part of it voluntarily to get rid of attacks from predators. Subsequently, the tail will regenerate, if not as perfect as the original.