Its skin and fur are dark overall. It inhabits lowland rainforest and montane forest, as well as grassland on Mount Nimba and the forest–savanna mosaic at Simandou.
Its tooth row is proportionally longer than that of the related Crocidura eburnea.
It inhabits lowland rainforest and montane forest, as well as grassland on Mount Nimba and the forest–savanna mosaic at Simandou. A Mount Nimba specimen came from grassland at 1,600 m.
Its skin and fur are dark overall. Individuals from the eastern part of its range can be brownish overall.
It is a small shrew with a head-and-body length of about 50–65 mm.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.