This shrew occurs in China's highlands. It has a grayish-brown back and silvery-gray underside, uses broadleaf and coniferous forests and alpine rhododendron habitat, and eats insects. Nepal specimens assigned to the species are unconfirmed, so only Chinese records are listed here.
The back is grayish brown and the underside is silvery gray. The tail is brown above and lighter below.
It occurs in broadleaf and coniferous forests and alpine rhododendron habitat, and it is insectivorous.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.