This small mouse has a short tail and a clear contrast between its light-brown back and whitish belly. It lives in moist savanna and grassland in West Africa.
It is small, with a relatively short tail and a distinct boundary between its light-brown back and whitish belly.
It is active around dusk and at night, eating seeds and other plant matter as well as small invertebrates. By day it hides in burrows or dense vegetation; it mostly uses the ground but can climb.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.