The dorsal feet are dark brown, while the soles are slightly paler. Records place this shrew in northern and central Sulawesi, but the published range is only a rough estimate because few specimens were available.
A research paper describes the dorsal surfaces of the feet as dark brown and the soles as brown but slightly paler.
Museums Victoria holds an adult female trapped on Mount Dako, central Sulawesi, in 2013. This is one collection record, not a description of the species' usual behavior.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.