Generally sandy brown to mid-brown dorsally, with irregular, blurred dark or olive marbling and a few scattered black dots. Dorsal surfaces densely dusted with iridocytes. A dark blotch or saddle marking present dorsally at the trunk-tail junction. Flanks darker than dorsum, marbled. Three diffuse dark areas present on the lateral face: a dark streak from the eye to the oral disc, a dark patch below the eye, and one posterior to the eye; sometimes an additional lateral patch occurs at the gill region. On the lower head and lower flanks, the dense dorsal iridocyte cover breaks up into irregular light patches. Ventral skin mostly unpigmented and transparent, with few scattered iridocytes and melanocytes in the gular, buccal, branchial, and anterior abdominal regions. Brown body coloration continues onto the dorsal surface of the tail, becomes lighter, and fades distally. Lateral tail base blotches typically merge into a horizontal streak extending over approximately one fifth of the tail length. Numerous distinct rosette-like clusters of iridocytes cover the tail and tail fins. Black blotches accentuate the distal part of the tail.