Adults have deep chestnut scales, small ears, and a bare patch at the snout tip. This pangolin is recorded in mixed deciduous and evergreen forest along the southern Himalaya.
Adult scales are deep chestnut to dark brown, while juveniles are slate-gray or gray-brown. The ears are small and flap-shaped, and the snout tip has a bare patch of skin.
The southern Himalayan specimens in the study were associated with mixed deciduous and evergreen forest. This is limited to the forest records in that paper.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.