Its back is described as warm brown, its underside as pale buff, and its muzzle, ears, feet, and tail as dark brown. It is a wetland specialist restricted to Nigeria's Jos Plateau.
The original account describes coarse, loose warm-brown fur, clay-colored to pale-buff sides and underside, and smoky dark-brown muzzle, ears, feet, and tail.
The IUCN assessment calls it an extreme wetland specialist and lists moist savanna, seasonally wet grassland, and swamps as habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.