The Ryukyu Mole is known from coastal grassland on Uotsurijima in the Senkaku Islands. It is fossorial, but its diet and breeding biology have not been documented.
Its back is dark grayish brown and the underside paler. The treatment describes a short tail and small forefeet for a mole.
It is a fossorial mole. The opened treatment contains no record of its food or reproduction, so details of its life remain unknown.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.