This small shrew was collected at Lubondai in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The 1955 specimen has short brown fur and a short tail. A 2017 study reported two individuals identified as this species from secondary forest around a lake near Kinshasa during sampling in 2015.
It is small and covered in short brown fur. The head is large, the ears and eyes are small and inconspicuous, and the feet and tail are short.
A 2017 study reported two individuals identified as this species during June–October 2015 sampling in secondary forest around Lac de Ma Vallée near Kinshasa. Trees at the study site included Musanga cecropioides and Pentaclethra eetveldeana.
In the same study, microscopic examination of gut material from these two individuals found no eggs of the helminth parasites examined.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.