It has grayish-brown fur above, a white underside, and a slender tail longer than its body. It makes tunnels beneath the mossy floor of Tasmania’s wet forests.
The upper fur is grayish brown and the underside is white. The tail is bicolored and longer than the body; some individuals have a white tail tip.
It uses rainforests, wet sclerophyll forests, and wet scrub. It makes runways and tunnels under the moss-covered forest floor and can shelter in holes in rotten stumps and logs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.