The bicolored shrew has a dark back and a pale underside. It hunts small animals in dry grasslands, woods and roadside brush.
Its back is dark gray-brown or chestnut, while its underside is white or gray. A sharp line separates the colors along its sides.
It uses dry upland grasslands, woods and roadside brush, moving through leaf litter and beneath brush or rock piles. It eats small mammals, frogs, lizards and invertebrates.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.