This South American mustelid occurs in the Amazon Basin. In 2023, one individual was observed hunting a rodent and using a nearby burrow in a shade-grown coffee plot in Bolivia’s Yungas montane forest.
The upperparts are glossy chestnut brown, sharply set off from the yellowish throat and belly. A dark-brown stripe runs down the midline from the throat to the belly.
One morning in October 2023, an individual was hunting a rodent near a spring in a shade-grown coffee plot in the Yungas montane forest at Teoponte, Bolivia. Disturbed by an observer, it fled to a nearby burrow and used the same burrow on following days.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.