This mole-rat lives underground and is currently named Fukomys zechi. A field study in Ghana reported frequent feeding on plant bulbs and tubers.
Published descriptions give its fur as pale buff to light sepia-brown; many individuals have a white spot on the head.
A study in Ghana's Guinea savanna woodland found bulbs and tubers among its common foods, with reproduction recorded during the rainy season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.