The long-tailed Taeromys lives in Sulawesi forests. It is nocturnal, spends most of its time in trees, and eats fruit.
Its fur is soft and dense, gray-brown above and white to cream or pale yellow underneath.
It is nocturnal and mainly arboreal, though it sometimes uses the ground. It eats fruit and is recorded in rainforest below 1,200 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.