This white-eye occurs on Pemba Island and nearby offshore islets in Tanzania. A regional taxonomic review records it throughout Pemba.
It is about 10–11 cm long, a small-bodied white-eye.
The species account lists forest and semi-open habitat and classifies feeding as fruit-gleaning and omnivorous. These are broad compiled categories, not a measured breakdown of foods in the field.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.