This small opossum ranges from southern Central America into northwestern South America. An Ecuadorian museum account describes its coat and facial pattern, and a 2025 paper reports one observation of it eating a venomous spider.
An Ecuadorian species account describes dense, soft brown-gray fur, a pale center to the face with dark areas around the eyes, a pale underside and a naked, two-colored prehensile tail.
A 2025 paper reports one nighttime observation from 2023 in which an adult caught and ate the venomous spider Phoneutria fera in terra-firme forest in Amazonian Ecuador. This single observation does not show the species’ usual diet or dietary proportions.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.