It is treated as a separate species today and is recorded in the Valley of Mexico. Older accounts used another name and found it mainly in livestock pastures where dense herbs provided cover.
Specimens reported under the older name Cryptotis parva soricina had dark-brown dorsal fur and a slightly two-colored tail.
In the Valley of Mexico, the older account found it mainly in livestock pastures where dense herbaceous plants provided cover. Another report recorded it in pine and mixed pine-oak forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.