This rodent has a chestnut-gray back and a yellowish-white underside. The handbook's current range for the species is northeastern Argentina and southeastern Paraguay, where it records the animal in humid Chaco grassland and wetland.
The handbook describes a chestnut-tinged gray back and a yellowish-white underside.
The handbook records it in open grassland and wetlands of the humid Chaco, as well as in pasture and banana plantations.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.