The Niobe Ground Squirrel is a day-active squirrel of the mountains of western Sumatra and eastern Java. It uses forests and scrub, and its body length is reported at about 19 cm.
The measurement table reports a body length of 19.46 cm for a female and 18.98 cm for a male. Tail lengths are 8.56 cm and 9.04 cm, respectively.
It is active by day on the ground and has been recorded in primary and secondary forest and scrub.
The back is so dark that the black stripes along the sides are not visible.
Tail hairs have white tips in the nominate subspecies and buff or tawny tips in subspecies vulcanus.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.