The Vietnamese mole is recorded in semideciduous forest on low-elevation limestone mountains in northern Vietnam. It has not been found in farms or grasslands around the forest, and its ecological requirements remain unknown.
It has a long, slender body with dark-brown fur above and silvery-brown fur below. Its very short tail is almost hidden by fur, and small projections around the nostrils correspond to whiskers.
The Vietnamese mole also lives in broadleaf forest on Mount Ba Vi. Numerous underground tunnels were found there, and it was reported most frequently in slightly disturbed forest above 600 metres. This small mole digs beneath the forest floor.
Short-tailed moles from Ba Vi had previously been reported as the Himalayan mole Euroscaptor micrura. In 2013, researchers re-examined their morphology and identified them as the Vietnamese mole, described the previous year. Ba Vi became its fourth known locality at that time.
The three specimens measured in the report had tails six to seven millimetres long. The surveys recorded external measurements and used museum comparisons. A 2025 study also treated the Ba Vi population as this species and examined DNA differences among geographic populations. Specimens and later analyses together connected records of an animal usually hidden underground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Forest restoration has been undertaken in Ba Vi National Park, where the mole occurs. In a 2020 report, the implementing Vietnam National University institute described planting native trees during 2014–2016 to restore degraded forest and former swidden fields. Retaining occupied forest and surveying restored areas for the mole would help link habitat work with species conservation.