This rabbit is recorded from a restricted area in southeastern Brazil. A survey including camera-trap records from 2017 reports an orangish patch on the nape and a mainly whitish underside.
The paper identifying 2017 camera-trap records describes an orangish patch on the nape and a mainly whitish underside.
The IUCN account describes open grassland with sparse grasses and low shrubs near Porto Real as the habitat at the known record locality.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.