This shrew has a dark reddish-brown back and tail and a paler underside. It is recorded in pine-oak cloud forest with deep leaf litter in southern Mexico.
The HMW species account describes a dark reddish-brown back, a lighter reddish-brown underside, and a uniformly dark reddish-brown tail.
It is recorded in pine-oak cloud forest with deep leaf litter at about 700–3,000 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.