This mouse lives in evergreen and semideciduous forests of Central Africa. Adults have a red-brown back and grayish-white underside, while juveniles have a blackish-gray back.
The back is red-brown and the underparts grayish white, with a clear boundary between them. Juveniles have a blackish-gray back. The gray-brown tail is sparsely covered with very short hairs; short white fur covers the upper feet, and the digits end in white tufts.
It is recorded in primary and secondary evergreen and semideciduous forests. Captures ranged from ground level to 17 m in the canopy, with the highest trapping success at about 2 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.