Therese's shrew was studied around Mount Nimba in West Africa. Brown fur and a tail shorter than the head-and-body are useful field-identification characters.
The field key describes brown fur, a tail shorter than the head-and-body, and sparse hairs exposed at the tail tip.
The Mount Nimba survey recorded it in edaphic savanna; cited earlier records also place it in grassland savanna and bush.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.