This marsupial is recorded around Wau in eastern New Guinea. It has gray-brown fur and black dorsal stripes, with paler hairs between the stripes.
The coat is gray-brown, with paler hairs between the black dorsal stripes. Tail hairs are short: about 5 millimetres along most of the tail and about 10 millimetres at its base. Hairs are sparser on the underside of the tail.
The 2015 species account lists its habitat as primary montane forest at elevations of 975–1,810 metres.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.