This small bat occurs in southwestern Madagascar. Its tail is shorter than half its total length; the back is brown and the underside has gray-tipped fur.
Its tail is shorter than half its total length. In the type series the back was medium brown, while the belly hairs had gray tips and looked paler.
At one Isalo site, researchers set a mist net across the Sahanafa River in degraded gallery forest near sandstone cliffs and captured the species there.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.