The Vermiculate Shrew is recorded from southeastern Kenya to northeastern Tanzania. Its back is pale brown and its underside is whitish.
Its pale-brown back is finely speckled, while the underside is whitish gray to yellowish; the relatively long tail is bristly.
It is terrestrial. One lactating female was captured in July in the western Usambara Mountains.
The forefeet are pale brown to yellowish brown, and the hindfeet are paler.
The tail is slightly bicolored, with a whitish-grey underside and a browner distal third.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.