This scaly-tail has soft gray fur and a dark, bushy tail. In Nigeria, one individual was seen moving up and down a tree branch.
Its soft gray fur has ochre tints on the forearms, lower legs, and cheeks. The underside is pale, the tail is darker and bushy, and it has no gliding membrane.
Three specimens caught in ground snares near Ureca village at the southern end of Bioko Island were studied in 2014–2015. A rainforest survey in southeast Cameroon from September 2018 to February 2019 also recorded the species on arboreal-camera video. On 17 May 2019, one individual was observed on a branch about 5 m above the ground in Queen’s Forest, the core zone of Omo Forest Reserve, Nigeria. At about 20:08 it moved up and down the branch, paused for several seconds when the observers turned on their lights, and remained under observation for about 19 minutes. The vegetation at that spot was relatively dense and shrubby, with little undergrowth.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.