Its back is coarsely grizzled buffy brown, its underside gray, and its hairy tail is bicolored. It is often captured in open Cerrado habitats.
The dorsal fur is coarsely grizzled buffy brown, the underside is gray, and the hairy tail is bicolored.
Unlike more forest-associated congeners, this species is most frequently captured in open Cerrado habitats and at forest–open-habitat edges.
Head-and-body length is 125–181 mm, and tail length is 141–198 mm.
Hindfoot length is 24–37 mm.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.