This climbing rat was described from the Araguaia–Tocantins basin in central Brazil. It is recorded in forest fragments within the Cerrado.
The back ranges from yellowish gray-brown to orange-brown; the underside is creamy to whitish. The feet are broad, and the long tail ends in a small tuft.
At the study sites it was caught in natural forest fragments called ipucas within Cerrado farmland. Traps were set on the ground and in the understory; the paper notes limited natural-history information.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.