The Montane Mouse Shrew occurs in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Rwenzori region. Records include specimens from high elevations.
The Ugandan account describes specimens with dark, nearly black fur. It does not establish how much coat color varies across the species.
Researchers found that its limb bones are intermediate between those of terrestrial and semifossorial reference moles. This suggests some digging adaptations, but it is a prediction from bone shape rather than a direct field observation of digging.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.