It has short soft fur and a long tail with a small white-tipped tuft. It is active at night and uses the ground.
It is medium-sized, with short, soft fur and a relatively long tail. The tail tuft is short and weakly developed, with a white tip in E. grandidieri.
It is active at night and uses the ground.
At 1,260 m in Anjanaharibe-Sud, 19 of the 23 animals caught in standardized traps were on the ground and four were on trunks or vines about 0.5–2 m above it.
Its back is dark, and its underparts are also dark grey.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.