This small shrew is recorded in Vietnam. A 2004 comparison ranked it smallest among the three Crocidura then reported from the country; a 2010 survey stressed sparse, apparently disjunct records.
The 2004 comparison described it as the smallest of the three Crocidura species then reported from Vietnam.
In a 2008 survey at Bi Doup–Nui Ba National Park, eight were caught in pitfalls in tall grassland near the base camp at 1,400 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.