A Vietnamese shrew with long gray-brown fur and a tail enlarged at the base.
The fur is long, dense, and soft, with a grayish-brown tone above and below. The tail is enlarged at the base, with short bristles limited to its proximal part.
Crocidura sokolovi has a tail approaching its head-and-body length. The front of the skull is slender and the braincase is rounded and domed. Its first upper incisor is small, with a slender principal cusp. Its proportions provide features beyond overall body size.
A 2007 study compared three specimens with similarly sized Crocidura attenuata. Their head-and-body lengths of 70–78 millimetres overlapped the comparison sample, but their 65–68-millimetre tails exceeded that sample’s 41–61-millimetre range.
Tail length was 87–93% of head-and-body length in the three focal specimens. Researchers also measured skulls and teeth, comparing proportions such as the width of the front of the skull relative to the braincase. These proportions helped reveal differences between outwardly similar animals.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Retaining forest in the Ngoc Linh mountain area is a foundation for conservation. A 1999 management plan based on surveys in 1996 and 1998 identified timber extraction as a concern and proposed stronger forest protection and management. Protecting the high-elevation evergreen and elfin forests where the shrew was collected in 2004, alongside further surveys, would support conservation.