It has long, abundant fur with a diffuse yellowish stripe down the middle of the back. The flanks and belly are grey, and it lives in coastal scrub in central Chile.
Each back hair has successive bands of dark grey, greyish brown, dark grey and yellowish brown. The grey flanks blend into the grey belly without a sharp boundary.
It lives in Mediterranean scrub along the coast of central Chile.
The guard hairs are about 24 mm long and project beyond the surrounding fur, especially along the middle of the back.
The tail is brown above and greyish white below. The foreclaws are about 2.5 mm long.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.