This mouse is recorded near water in the Congo Basin. Its taxonomic study reports specimens collected at river or stream edges.
The back is rusty gray-brown, while the underside and lower forelimbs are white. The hindlimbs are dark above and white below, and the long whiskers are black and white.
Specimen labels describe sites as “water’s edge,” “in a brook,” and “in the forest.” Another specimen came from beside a slow-flowing stream.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.