Lamotte's Shrew is a West African shrew. A 2013 survey of small mammals around Béli in the Boé region of southeastern Guinea-Bissau recorded the species as a new country record.
The back is light brown to gray-brown and the underside is gray. The limbs are pale, and the tail tapers from a broad base and is paler than the back.
Three Nigerian specimens were recorded in derived savanna; one from Kabba was collected among dry grasses on a rocky hillside.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.