This ground-dwelling rat is recorded in New Guinea hill forest. Its back is grayish or reddish brown, and the gray fur underneath is tipped with white or rufous.
Its dorsal fur ranges from grayish to reddish brown. The gray fur underneath has white or rufous tips, and three hairs grow from each tail scale.
It is a forest rat that lives on the ground. Its diet has not been recorded, and little is known about its life in the wild.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.