This small deer has records in Bolivia’s mountain region. A study reported it from high grasslands and Polylepis elfin forest down to lower sub-Andean forest.
Animals described in the study had brown bodies with reddish midbacks and flanks, darker necks, heads, and legs, and buff to pale-orange throats, chests, and bellies. The underside of the tail had a white tuft.
The Bolivian study recorded the deer from high grasslands and Polylepis elfin forest down to lower sub-Andean forest. These habitat types reflect records in that study.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.