Scott's sportive lemur is a nocturnal lemur with reddish-brown fur and a black tail tip. The 2020 assessment knew it only from Masoala National Park in northeastern Madagascar.
Its coat is reddish brown, with a diffuse black stripe along the middle of the back that ends partway down the body. The face is whitish gray and the tail tip is black.
It is presumed to be mainly folivorous and nocturnal. The IUCN assessment reports tree holes as sleeping sites in primary forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.