The forest shrew is a small gray-to-brown shrew. It searches for insects and other small invertebrates in moist, densely vegetated places.
Its back ranges from dark gray to brown, while the gray belly hairs have white tips. The tail is dark above and paler below.
It is mostly active at night and digs burrows in the soil. It eats insects and a variety of other small arthropods it encounters.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.