The Crescent Shrew lives in mountains of east-central Africa. It has soft, dense fur, with a paler underside than its back.
Its fur is soft and dense, dark gray-brown to medium brown above and paler brown-gray below. The tail is narrow and blackish brown.
It is terrestrial and is found mainly in swamps and secondary scrub. It has also been recorded in secondary forest, bamboo forest, and montane swamps, but less often there.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.