Osgood's Short-tailed Opossum has been reported from central Peru to central Bolivia. The MDD cautions that specimens beyond genetically confirmed individuals in Bolivia may not all have been correctly identified.
The back is brownish gray and the feet are pale.
Known locality records are from moderate to high elevations; the Bolivian type locality, Incachaca, is at 2,600 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.