This rodent is recorded in the Usambara and Uluguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania. Its dark reddish-brown back is speckled and its underside is pale brown or cinnamon.
The HMW species account describes a speckled dark reddish-brown back, a pale-brown to cinnamon underside, and a tail about 50–70% of head-and-body length.
HMW lists rainforest and fallow land as habitats and reports that it eats soil-dwelling invertebrates.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.