This shrew was described from the Ethiopian highlands. Its species account links it with the open Afroalpine vegetation of the Sanetti Plateau in the Bale Mountains.
The back is grey-brown and the underside grey, with pale yellow tips on the ventral hairs; the feet are pale.
It was collected in short, sparse Afroalpine vegetation on the Sanetti Plateau.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.