This small gerbil has orange-brown upperparts and a white underside. HMW (2017) records it around Burao in northern Somalia, in a dry semiarid environment.
Head-and-body length is 71–84 mm and tail length 106–117 mm. The upperparts are orange-brown, the underside white, and the soles of the hindfeet bare. The long tail ends in a small pencil of hair.
HMW (2017) describes its habitat as dry semiarid environment. It gives no diet or breeding information.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.