This spiny mouse lives on Crete. It has a gray back, reddish-yellow flanks with fine spines, and uses dry scrub and rocky crevices.
The dorsum is gray, with some reddish-yellow coloring and fine spines on the flanks. The underside is dirty white, and the tail is about as long as the head and body together.
It uses dry Mediterranean scrub and rocky ground with crevices, sometimes near cultivated land.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.