This tuco-tuco is known from the dry valleys of Bolivia's eastern Andes. Its three known localities are mostly on valley floors with friable soil.
Its back ranges from ochre-orange to brown. Many individuals have a dark cap on the head and a dark stripe along the middle of the back.
Known sites are mostly on valley floors with friable soil in the Andean dry valleys. At one site near Vallegrande, field notes describe hillsides with mesquite and columnar cacti beside a valley with dense shrubs and trees.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.