The Congo tateril has yellow-brown to chocolate-colored upper fur, a white underside, and a long tail ending in a dark tuft. It is a ground-dwelling rodent of savannas and dry woodland.
The book reports upper fur ranging from yellow-brown in northern records to darker chocolate in the south; the underside, cheeks, hands, and feet are white, and the tail ends in a long dark tuft.
It is nocturnal and terrestrial. In a survey at Zakouma National Park, Chad, embryos were recorded in two of 30 captured females: three in one and four in the other.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.