The savanna shrew has a pale brown to cinnamon back and gray-white flanks and underside. It occurs in the Sahel’s dry savannas.
The back is pale brown to cinnamon, with bluish-gray hair bases. The flanks and underside are gray-white with white hair tips and a clear boundary from the back. Its tail is thin, brown, and hairy.
It is recorded in dry savanna and may also use a variety of more mesic habitats. The account gives no information on its food or activity patterns.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.