This mouse lives in high-elevation forests of central Nepal and is reported to forage on the ground at night.
A Mammal Diversity Database photograph taken at Ghorepani, Nepal, shows a gray-brown back, pale underside, and slender tail.
A 2005 CAMP report describes it as nocturnal and terrestrial, in temperate forests with rhododendron and conifers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.