This small antelope is recorded from the Upper Guinea forest zone east to the Lower Niger area of western Nigeria. It has a dark body and legs, a grayish head and neck, and a reddish-brown crown tuft.
Its body and legs are dark, its head and neck are grayish, and a reddish-brown tuft sits on the crown.
The guide says it is recorded more often in secondary forest, gallery forest along rivers, and farm bush than in undisturbed primary forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.