This shrew is recorded in western Sumatra. A 2012 field survey found it at all three sampled sites on Mount Singgalang, whose vegetation differed.
In the 2012 Mount Singgalang field survey, Crocidura neglecta was black above and slightly paler below.
The 2012 survey captured it at all three sample sites. Their vegetation differed, including ginger and fern-rich cover at one site and forest with Fagaceae and Myrtaceae at others.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.