This small mouse lives in the Chaco region of South America. Its back is olive-gray, its underside is pale, and it forages on the ground for seeds and insects.
Its back is olive-colored with fine gray ticking; the underside ranges from grayish white to pale buff. The tail is dark above and paler below.
It is terrestrial and uses grassland, scrub, thorn woodland, wetlands, and gallery forest. It is omnivorous, eating plant seeds and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.