This mole has a cinnamon-brown back with silver lines and a gray underside. It lives underground in the Baja California mountains; one individual was caught in poplar forest. The 2018 account lists four known localities.
The back is cinnamon brown with silver lines, and the underside is gray.
It is fossorial. HMW 8 reports elevations of 1,150–2,000 m and one capture in a Populus forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.