This rodent is recorded from Kenya’s Matthews Range. Heller’s 1912 description says the adult male had a dark back and lighter brown sides; five specimens came from forest glades near a mountain summit.
In Heller’s 1912 description, the adult male had uniformly dark brown fur on the back and lighter brown flanks. Its ears were black, its feet dark gray, and its gray underparts had a brown suffusion.
The 1912 description records five specimens collected in forest glades near the summit of Mount Uaragess in the Matthews Range. This is a collection record from one mountain, not a full habitat survey.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.