Bonetto’s tuco-tuco is recorded in a few populations near its type locality in Chaco Province, Argentina. It inhabits sandy patches, while its natural history remains poorly known.
The back is brown, mottled with dark hairs, and has a median black band. The band is more conspicuous on the head and in specimens with worn fur. The flanks are yellowish brown, becoming yellower on the underside; the upper surfaces of the hands and feet are covered with silvery gray hairs, and the tail is yellowish.
It inhabits sandy patches in the periodically flooded, humid Chaco. The species is known from few places around its type locality, and its natural history is poorly known.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.