This small shrew is recorded in mountain areas of Cameroon and Nigeria, including moist montane forest in Cameroon and farms or grassland in Nigeria.
A 1992 report measured two specimens at about 60 mm head-and-body and 61 mm tail. Compared with S. granti, the rostrum is slender and the upper third molar larger.
Records include montane moist forest in Cameroon and farms or grassland in southeastern Nigeria, at about 2,000 m and 2,300 m respectively.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.