Its back is reddish chestnut mixed with black, and its underside is paler. It has been recorded in several habitats, including humid montane forest.
It is medium-sized. The back is dark rusty chestnut finely mixed with black; the underside is paler, with dark-based hairs tipped yellowish or gray.
Records include forest, grassland, shrubland, and montane habitats. A museum specimen was collected in very humid lower montane forest in Venezuela.
In premontane humid forest of Venezuela’s Coastal Range, animals were active by day and night.
There is a ring around the eye. The ears are dark brown and thinly covered with short, dark rusty-brown hairs.
The tail is uniformly dark and sparsely haired, without a terminal tuft.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.